The teams analysis waspublishedtoday inScientific Reports.
The individuals remains were found in a bed at the Collegium Augustalium in Herculaneum.
Though human brain preservation is rare in the archaeological record, it is documented.
A fragment of organic glass formed from the brain of an individual in Herculaneum.Photo: Pier Paolo Petrone
Now, they understand the extreme and unique conditions that produced the glass brain.
The team added that the unique process caused the brain and its microstructures to perfectly preserve.
The ash cloud then dissipated and the brain could cool down quickly to ambient temperatures, transforming into glass.
The deceased individual in their bed in Herculaneum’s Collegium Augustalium. Photo: Pier Paolo Petrone
Giordano noted that the town was only buried by deposits of pyroclastic flows later in the eruption event.
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