Vesuvius eruption baked some people to death—and turned one brain to glass
A pair of studies reveals more details about what happened to the victims of the infamous event in A.D. 79. When Mount Vesuvius unleashed its fury in A.D. 79, Herculaneum was just one of several towns smothered by ash and savaged by superheated volcanic avalanches. But three centuries after …
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