Mt. Vesuvius may have turned Ancient Roman brains into glass. A newly published article claimed to have analyzed the first evidence of preserved brain matter
“The reported findings indicate that the vitrified black material is resulting from the victim’s brain exposure to high temperatures,” Petrone and colleagues suggest.
Tim Thompson, a forensic anthropologist at Teesside University in the UK, does not think that the vaporization theory is supported by experimental work or forensic cases, even at temperatures in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius. He tells me by email that he’s “not seen anything like this before, which is interesting in itself” but that “we need to do more research in this area to see if we can reproduce the conditions in which [the glassy material] formed to truly interpret its significance.
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