A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

Queen Mary of Denmark and her husband, King Frederik X, were welcomed by president of Finland Alexander Stubb and his spouse, ...

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

A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit ...

Learn how one victim of the A.D. 79 Mt. Vesuvius eruption experienced a singular set of tragic circumstances.

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.

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

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago turned a victim’s brain tissue into glass. Scientists say they have figured ...

Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.