It was a surprising discovery when scientists were examining the remains of a person who died on a bed in the ancient city of Mount Vesuvius, Italy, in 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius found dark pieces similar to the obesidian inside his skull. It turns out that the explosion somehow turned his brain into glass.
This is the only case on the record of such an event, and the researchers now have the answer and how.
They say that vitrification – change in glass – This victim had a clear effect of a scorching ash cloud in the brain of this victim who suddenly landed in his city with a Gulf of Naples, immediately killed all the inhabitants.
He concluded that vitrification occurred up to a very high temperature through a unique process of rapid risk of brain’s organic materials – at least 510 ° C (950 ° F) – and subsequently cooled rapidly.
Researchers made a comprehensive analysis that confirmed the nature of the glass of pieces and discovered their physical properties.
“The glass formed as a result of this process has allowed for an integral protection of biological brain materials and its microstructure,” the forensic humanist Pear Paolo Petron, Forensic of Universita de Napoli Federico II in Italy, said, one of the research leaders published in journal scientific reports.
The explosion despised the rich Roman cities of Pompei and Harkulanium.
“We have evidence of only other types of organic glass that produced in some rare cases of wood vitrification, sporadic cases, of which have been found in Harkulanium and Pompei. However, the remains of organic human or animals have been found anytime in any other case in the world,” Petron said.
Thousands of people were killed and both cities were buried under a thick layer of volcanic materials and mud, sitting untouched until their redistribution in the 18th century. The victims were preserved in a sudden death, as the case whose brain was turned into glass.
His body was first discovered inside a building in the 1960s, which was dedicated to the creed of Emperor Augustus named College of the Aggustals, who died in 14 AD. The person was identified as a young man, who was believed to be the patron of the college. The remains were re -examined in 2018.
Petron said, “I was in the room where the college custodian was lying to the document of his bones on his bed. Under the lamp, I suddenly saw that the ash of the volcano has a small glass glow, which fills the skull,” Petron said.
“Taking one of these pieces, it had a black appearance and shiny surfaces, similar to the obesidian, a natural glass of volcanic origin – black and shiny, which is formed due to the formation of the lava very fast. But, unlike the obesidian, the glass residues were highly brittle and easy to cry,” Petron said.
The analysis of this material was previously published in other scientific magazines, detected the presence of normal protein and fatty acids in human brain tissues, exceptionally well preserved with the entire central nervous system, represented by nervous cells that are interconnected by a dense network of Axon.
Research is making a deep understanding of how tragic incidents came to light after the explosion.
“The study suggests that the ‘killer’ in the Herkulanium was an arrival in the city of an early hot ash cloud. This ash highlights the importance of understanding the behavior of the clouds, as they are very dangerous and still very poorly studied and understood,” Jwalamukhi said that the first writer of the Roma Traive University in Italy, study Guido Gyordano.
The real burial of the city occurred in the later stages of the explosion.
Apparently the first effects of the Custodian explosion around midnight were surprised while sleeping in their bed.
Petron said, “As the victims show the currencies, the college’s custodian died immediately due to the effect of the warm volcanic ash, as by all the other residents of the Harkulanium,” Petron said. “The body of the evidence found for the victims in Harkulanium shows that all people died immediately, so they did not have a notice or time to suffer.”
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