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Mount Vesuvius eruption 'turned victim's brain to glass'


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Based on analysis of the charred wood found near the corpse, the team determined that the room likely reached a maximum temperature of 968 degrees Fahrenheit (520 degrees Celsius). The extreme temperature would have been hot enough to "vaporize soft tissues" in the victim's body and burn every last trace of fat. Following the brief blast of heat, the body would have rapidly cooled, leaving behind the grisly remains of an exploded skull coated in vitrified brain bits, the authors noted.

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Enveloped in a surge of hot ash, the victim's brain had been burned to twisted black bits through a process called vitrification. The glassy material "encrusted" the surface of the man's skull

https://www.livescience.com/vitrified-brain-of-vesuvius-victim-found.html

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/vesuvius-brain-0014353

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Pier Paolo Petrone, a forensic anthropologist, and some colleagues were examining the remains of one of the young victims. They were those of a 20-year-old man found in the center of Herculaneum near a building where the cult of Emperor Augustus was celebrated.

The room in which the man and his preserved brain were found. (Pier Paolo Petrone)

The room in which the man and his preserved brain were found. ( Pier Paolo Petrone )

A solidified spongy mass was found in his chest cavity and this was similar to victims of the ‘firestorms in Dresden and Hamburg, Germany, during World War II’, the researchers wrote in JMNE. The extreme heat had caused the young man’s brain cavity to explode but the experts found something interesting encrusted on the remains of the skill. Shards of black glassy material were found.

 

 

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