PARIS, Feb 28 — A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years...
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That is the theory Italian scientists proposed on Thursday to explain the strange case of the ancient Roman’s brain, which they said is the only human tissue ever known to have naturally turned to glass. Thousands of bodies have been discovered at the sites effectively frozen in time, offering a glimpse into the daily life of ancient Rome.
A general view shows the archaeological site of Herculaneum in Ercolano, near Naples, with the Mount Vesuvius volcano in the background, on October 23, 2019. — AFP picWhen the scientists studied the glass using an electron microscope, they discovered an “amazing, truly unexpected thing,” he said. The “only possible scenario” was that an ash cloud emitted by Vesuvius delivered an initial hot blast before quickly dissipating, the study said.
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