Mt Vesuvius victim’s brain ‘turned to glass’ as hundreds more baked to death

Mt Vesuvius victim’s brain ‘turned to glass’ as hundreds more baked to death – studies
The devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD famously entombed nearby towns in ash, and new research has now revealed the extent of the horrifying end suffered by the victims, showing some baked to death as they fled.
Jan 23, 2020 14:38

 

Yeah, a little dramatic; not real glass:
"A new study by Italian experts, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, examined the remains of one man in Herculaneum and found that he was inflicted with such extreme temperatures that his brain melted, with the organ later cooling into a kind of glass which was found coating the surface of his exploded skull."