Park or Personal Paradise? A Rare Private Island Comes Onto the Italian Market
The sale of an island just off the coast of Bacoli, near Naples, has pit the quest for a rich investor against a more ...
The Mirror22d
Volcano eruption turns man's brain to glass with explosive heatwave
The brain of a victim caught up in the massive eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 1,000 years ... accident that wiped them off the ancient Roman maps - gave historians a fascinating glimpse into ...
Understanding the Flegrean Fields
The Campania Region and Civil Protection have been working for some time to promote proper understanding of the bradyseismic ...
Life-sized murals discovered on walls of Pompeii home buried by volcanic eruption nearly 2,000 years ago
In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...
The New York Times20d
Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly?
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 ...
Nature23d
Vesuvius volcano turned this brain to glass
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 ...
Daily Mail23d
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius turned its victims' brains to GLASS: Scientists discover unique shards inside the skull of a person caught in the blast in Herculaneum
Their conclusion, based on observations of modern volcanic eruptions, is that a super-heated ash cloud which dissipated quickly was the first deadly event during Vesuvius's eruption. The bones of ...