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.
A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved collection of ancient glassware from Roman-era tombs in the city of Nîmes, southern France. The colorful glass vases were unearthed ...
[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 support massive structures. In the 17th century, scientist Robert Hooke ...
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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 ...