For more than a century, scientists have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: how do you cool living tissue to ...

A young Roman man was sleeping peacefully in his bed one night nearly 2,000 years ago, when a cloud of scorching-hot ash descended from the top of the erupting Mount Vesuvius to smother him and turn ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is perhaps the best-known natural disaster in the ancient world. It preserved whole towns and human remains, which have all been priceless from an archaeological point ...

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A new study has determined that a rapidly advancing cloud of gas probably overcame a young man who was killed during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Temperatures in the gas cloud ...

The young man was found dead in a small room near the entrance to the Hall of the Augustales, a civic order of freedmen, a bit like a freemason lodge. Perhaps he was a security guard. He’s been ...

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The vitrification of a man's brain in ancient Herculaneum offers unique insights into the volcanic eruption of 79 AD. Scientists discovered glass-like fragments in the victim's skull, formed by ...

Nearly two thousand years ago, a young man in Herculaneum faced one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in human history. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it unleashed an inferno that ...

“We found fragments. Many fragments but not the full brain,” lead author Guido Giordano, a professor of volcanology at the Department of Science at the University of Roma Tre, told The Debrief. “We ...