To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C before cooling rapidly. The pyroclastic flow is believed to have reached ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, covering nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash which buried the towns and hundreds of its residents which left them perfectly preserved ...

The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier ...

Guido Giordano et al. / Scientific Reports "Only later in the night was the city completely buried by the deposits of the pyroclastic flows," said paper author and volcanologist professor Guido ...

“[Temperatures of] 550C in short lived diluted PDC event leaving only a thin ash layer on the ground, and later followed by the deposition of lower temperature but thicker pyroclastic ...