The eruption of Mount Vesuvius produced such a hot ash cloud that it turned victims' brains into glass, according to a new study. Researchers have unearthed a piece of dark-coloured organic glass ...

The pea-sized chunks of black glass were found inside the skull of the victim, aged about 20, who died when the volcano erupted in 79 AD near modern-day Naples. Scientists now believe a cloud of ...

Giordano and his colleagues analyzed glass fragments from inside the skull and spinal cord of the body, which was discovered still lying in its bed in the Collegium Augustalium. They imaged the sample ...