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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The hard skull and spine of the man—whose remains archeologists found still in his bed in the town of Herculaneum—likely ...