Scientists have confirmed a rare discovery in Herculaneum—a man's brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D.

Uncovered in what was once a spacious banqueting hall that opened onto a garden, the frieze dates back to the 1st century BC, ...

Scientists made the surprise discovery while examining the body of a man who was killed in the ancient city of Herculaneum ...

Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Scientists have described how the heat from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago was so intense it turned ...