A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.

Why archaeologists are increasingly leaving historic sites untouched until we have less destructive technologies for studying ...

Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures ...

The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating ...