Many Pompeii people suffocated from breathing in toxic fumes from ... They concluded that a super-heated ash cloud marked the first wave of Vesuvius's eruption. Such a cloud would have appeared ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts believe the ash cloud turned the man's brain into glass because the ...

The famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum created a super-heated ash cloud that turned one unlucky man's brain to glass, a new study suggests.

Pompeii volcanic eruption was so hot it turned brain to glass - Fiery ash cloud that dissipated quickly was likely first deadly event during Mount Vesuvius eruption ...

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

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

On the first day of the eruption, Pompeii was covered in ash and falling debris ... They died when the roiling cloud of hot ...

NBC News’ Molly Hunter got a look at the new discoveries being unearthed in Pompeii, the former Roman city that was buried ...

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

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

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

Pompeii archaeologists uncover tragic final ... researchers concluded that a super-heated ash cloud that dissipated quickly was the first deadly event during Vesuvius’s eruption.