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

Volcanic eruption ... in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark ...

To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...

They look like small pieces of obsidian ... the volcanic eruption. “People end up in funny places,” he adds. Either way, it’s a unique finding. Archaeologists have unearthed ancient human ...

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, ...

Archaeologists have two means for studying ancient social relations ... used to make the artifacts recovered in archaeological sites. Obsidian, formed by the rapid cooling of volcanic magma, is ...

“Obsidian glass, that is a volcanic glass, forms when lava is very quickly cooled, for example, where it enters into water,” Giordano added. However, the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast ...

The shards, or clasts, have a glassy luster, making them look a lot like obsidian, a glass formed ... the ancient Roman city more famously buried and preserved under volcanic ash, like Herculaneum ...