Intense heat generated by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption turned one victim's brain to glass. While gruesome, the finding published in the journal Scientific Reports, lends insight into the chaotic events that ...

forms when lava is very quickly cooled, for example, where it enters into water,” Giordano added. However, the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast-moving volcanic material and toxic gas, that charged ...

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

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

Even though Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago ... two people who didn't die from the choking air or searing hot lava flows, but instead might be the first two ever found who died ...

World History Archive/Alamy Supported by By Franz Lidz When Mount Vesuvius erupted ... volcanic particles — ash, pumice lava fragments and gas — that flow according to their density in ...

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount ... flow plunged onto the town. Pyroclastic flow is the plume of hot gas and lava fragments coughed ...

In the shadow of Mt Vesuvius, Pompeii's buried wonders are still emerging. A newly found fresco offers a tantalising glimpse into the vibrant life of the past.

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount ... the flow arrived. The "only possible scenario" was that an ash cloud emitted by Vesuvius ...

However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius ... forms when lava is very quickly cooled ...