The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD froze tragic scenes of life in time. Among them, a rare phenomenon: the vitrification of a victim's brain, preserved as black glass. This discovery, made

The hard skull and spine of the man—whose remains archeologists found still in his bed in the town of Herculaneum—likely protected the brain from complete thermal breakdown, allowing fragments to form into organic glass.

Scientists have discovered the reason behind the transformation of a young man's brain to glass following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 79 AD.