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A man’s brain was turned into glass by the eruption of Vesuvius

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A man’s brain was turned into glass by the eruption of Vesuvius

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A sample of organic glass found inside the skull of a man from Herculaneum

Pier Paolo Petrone

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius around 2000 years ago caused one man’s brain to explode and turned the fragments to glass. The discovery is the only known instance of soft tissue turning to glass and sheds new light on how eruptions kill – and how we might protect people.

The volcanic disaster struck in AD 79, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae in thick layers of ash that eventually solidified. At least 1500 bodies and thousands of ancient papyrus scrolls have…



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