Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 that detailed how one victim of the ...

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.

The hard skull and spine of the man—whose remains archeologists found still in his bed in the town of Herculaneum—likely protected the brain from complete thermal breakdown, allowing fragments to form ...

After demonstrating in the 2020 paper that the glass ... In the case of the guardian, his skull provided enough protection to prevent the destruction of that tissue, the researchers suggest.

Read the paper: Unique formation ... found in the man’s skull and spine and deduced the presence of a super-heated ash cloud that would have caused the tissue to first liquify then rapidly ...

In a paper published Thursday ... t sure exactly what was in the skull. By testing fragments of what was found, they were able to prove that it was indeed brain tissue and that it was indeed ...

Brain tissue does sometimes ... Another 2020 paper documented the preservation of neurocytoarchitecture in a 2,600-year-old Iron Age human skull excavated in Heslington, York, albeit via a ...