The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.

The Wheel of Time season 3, episode 4 brought the main characters to Rhuidean, a major location rich with its own lore in ...

Glass making originated in the Near East around 2000 BCE in the form of beads, seals and inlays. The earliest makers pressed glass into molds. Around 1500 BCE, finer vessels were being made in Egypt.

Materials and Biological Engineering The Ballidon experiment was established by Sheffield based glass scientists and archaeologists in 1970. Its purpose was to compare the corrosion of modern and ...

[as] was the case of the unfortunate ancient Roman in Herculaneum, there could be a possibility to survive and wait for rescue.” It does sound magical that a human being could turn into glass ...

This idea isn’t new—it goes back thousands of years. The Romans and Mesopotamians built arches that used compression to ...

Researchers have concluded that glass beads excavated from the tomb of a king in Fukuoka Prefecture were likely brought to Japan through the ancient Silk Road trade route network. A group of ...