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

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

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

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

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...

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 ...

“Here we demonstrate that material with glassy appearance found within the skull of a seemingly male human body entombed ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

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