Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.

The methods for creating and shaping glass originated in the eastern region of the Empire, according to Pliny the Elder, a 1st century C.E. Roman author and naturalist. In Natural History XXXVI.65, ...

In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby ancient Roman city of Pompeii and the ... and parts of his spinal cord had turned into glass. Scientists had never seen a glassy soft tissue ...

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

The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier thousands of years ago.

Languages: English. A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by an ash cloud. This is the ...

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included glassy fragments that had mystified archaeologists Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent A fragment of the glass found within the skull of a college custodian in the Roman town of Herculaneum.