The young man was found dead in a small room near the entrance to the Hall of the Augustales, a civic order of freedmen, a bit like a freemason lodge. Perhaps he was a security guard. He’s been ...
The center of the Earth is so hot that it could satisfy the entire world’s energy needs. But can scientists safely tap into ...
The Painted Desert isn’t just another Instagram backdrop. Beyond the tourist spots and familiar viewpoints, this 93,500-acre ...
An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...
A fragment of organic glass formed from the brain of an individual in Herculaneum. Photo: Pier Paolo Petrone Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted, swallowing the nearby Roman towns of ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Parts of a human brain solidified into black glass when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius blasted a young man’s bedroom with a ...
Fragments from the brain of a man killed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in the year 79 are smooth and shiny but still contain visible neurons. They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and ...
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