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.

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts believe the ash cloud turned the man's brain into glass because the ...

Researchers studied the strange material found in the man’s skull and spine and deduced the presence of a super-heated ash cloud that would have caused the tissue to first liquify then rapidly ...

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A glassy, black material was also found inside the skull of a man who was found on a wooden bed, buried by volcanic ash. Analysis of charred wood near the body revealed that the temperatures ...

Photos provided by the girl’s mother showed that skull fragments and foreign material, presumed to be a part of the set square made of tempered glass and used by the teacher to hit her ...