Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.
In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...
A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts believe the ash cloud turned the man's brain into glass because the ...
Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...
A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...
The deposits recorded dramatic, increasingly violent pulses from the volcano. At noon on Day 1, Vesuvius began to eject a plume of rocky volcanic fragments and gas into the air, known as an ...
Read the paper: Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE The brain of a man who died nearly 2000 years ago was turned to glass by extreme conditions ...
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30,000-year-old fossilized vulture feathers 'nothing like what we usually see' preserved in volcanic ash"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ...
A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.
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A Vesuvius Victim’s Brain Turned into Glass, and Scientists Think They Know HowThe 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 ...
A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the fragments inside his skull became an extremely rare organic glass ...
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