The only known case of a human brain being turned to glass, that of a man caught in the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius at the ...

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In a nutshell Scientists discovered a human brain from 79 CE Vesuvius eruption transformed into glass—the only known case of ...

A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.

Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures ...

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A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...

The volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that buried the Italian city of Pompeii, with its inhabitants suffering a deadly ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, covering nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash which buried the towns and hundreds of its ...

A recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports described how a young man's brain was transformed into glass ...

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