Excavations 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 alone, ...

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, a new study confirms. By Franz Lidz Five years ago Italian researchers ...

When an ancient Roman resident of the coastal city Herculaneum was struck down by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, what happened to his brain became a scientific sensation. Plaster body casts of ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...