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

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD froze tragic scenes of life in time. Among them, a rare phenomenon: the vitrification of a victim's brain, preserved as black glass. This discovery, made ...

It is a unique case of the formation of vitrified organic material found in the skull of a young adult male, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD and found lying in his bed in the Collegium ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered a human brain from 79 CE Vesuvius eruption transformed into glass—the only known case of natural organic glass preservation in history. The brain vitrified at ...