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Vesuvius Turned One Victim’s Brain to Glass

Vesuvius Turned One Victim’s Brain to Glass

Five years ago Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. that detailed how one victim of the blast, a male presumed to be in his mid 20s, had been found nearby in the seaside settlement of Herculaneum. He was lying facedown and buried by ash on a wooden bed in the College of …

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