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Robert Harris - 'Pompeii' - The Folio Society edition

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Svenska Dagbladet

Brains turned to glass in volcanic eruptions

A dark glass mass found inside the skull of one of those who perished in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius has surprised scientists. Now they think they have found the answer to the riddle.

4 days ago·Stockholm, Sweden

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Sapo

A man's brain turned to glass after a volcanic eruption

It was probably 20 years old and archaeologists discovered its skeleton during excavations in the 1960s. What they found surprised them: brain fragments seemed to have been transformed into shiny black glass... The...

4 days ago·Portugal

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Folha de S.Paulo

Vesuvius erupted, but when exactly? - 09/03/2025

When Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., avalanches of ash and pumice -volcanic rocks- devastated Pompeii, displacing about 15,000 inhabitants and killing at least another 1,500. Read more (03/09/2025)

2 days ago·São Paulo, Brazil

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Robert Harris - 'Pompeii' - The Folio Society edition

Illustrated by Robert Carter.

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Radio France

A brain vitrified by the eruption of Vesuvius, 2,000 years ago, explains the course of the disaster

To the summary of "The Planet of Science" this week: an ancient vitrified brain, a fish that makes intelligence rhyme with offspring and the effects of children on the aging of their parents' brains.

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