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

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 ...

Scientists have identified intact neuronal structures in this vitrified material, evidence of an exceptional preservation process. Vitrification, the transformation of a material into glass ...

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 ...