Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...

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

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago turned a victim’s brain tissue into glass. Scientists say they have figured ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

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

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

A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...

“Here we demonstrate that material with glassy appearance found within the skull of a seemingly male human body entombed ...

Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

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 ...