The researchers discovered a hot ash cloud of more than 510 degrees Celsius appeared after the Vesuvius volcanic eruption in 79 may have turned the human brain into glass.
Glass material in the man’s skull in Herculaneum. Image: Pier Paul
In 79, a man died in the Vesuvius volcanic eruption near Pompeii through a rare change. The victim’s brain seems to turn into glass. But for a long time, how scientists argue about this, because the volcanic scrap stream includes a fragment of broken stones, gas and gas buried the man who is not hot enough and does not cool enough to make the victim’s brain. Currently, researchers offer new explanations. Appearing right in front of the debris is a super hot ash cloud, first heating quickly, then cooling the man’s brain quickly when it spreads out, turning the brain into glass, Live Science Report.
Research published on February 27 in the magazine Scientific Reports Is the latest hypothesis in the controversy about the material found in the remaining skull of the man. The article provides additional evidence, including brain cell veal, showing that this material is a brain tissue.
The new hypothesis was strengthened by the study of charcoal debris found near the victim’s body in Herculaneum, a coastal town a few kilometers from Pompeiii, destroyed by the same eruption, according to the leader Guido GioDo Giidano, geologist and volcano studying at Rome Tre University in Italy. Giordano and colleagues realized that charcoal debris had undergone many heating events and the highest temperature associated with the original super hot ash cloud.
Such ash clouds formed in recent volcanic eruptions with crushed streams, including the eruption of Unzen volcanoes in Japan in 1991 and Fuego volcano in Guatemala in 2018. The original ash cloud contains very few volcanic materials and seems to have little natural effects. But they can still be deadly due to super hot temperatures. The researchers estimate that the ash cloud covering Herculaneum had a temperature of more than 510 degrees Celsius, hot enough at first and cooled quickly then to make the human brain.
The remains of the man were found in the mid -1960s, revealing the victim dying while lying in bed in a house in Collegium Augustalium, a hospital that encouraged the worship of Roman emperors. The new research of Gioodano and colleagues produced micro analysis shows the existence of brain cells and many other brain structures inside glass material.