A man’s brain was partly turned into glass after Mount Vesuvius erupted.

Mount Vesuvius exploded, partially turning a man’s brain into glass.

In the ancient colony of Herculaneum, scientists found black pieces that resembled obsidian in a man’s skull.

When the volcano erupted in 79 AD, the old village and Pompeii were completely destroyed, killing thousands of people and burying them under a thick layer of mud and volcanic debris, leaving them in perfect condition for future archaeologists.

In the 1960s, the guy was initially found within the College of the Augustales, a structure devoted to the worship of Emperor Augustus.

He is believed to have been the caretaker of the college and was murdered in his bed in the initial stages of the eruption when the cloud of blazing hot ash struck around midnight, when he was presumed to be asleep.

In the last phases of the geological catastrophe, the city was buried. However, the glass pieces were found when his remains were recently reexamined.

Researchers claimed that this was the “only such occurrence” of this occurring on Earth in a report released on Thursday. It was brought on by a cloud of extremely hot ash that appeared out of nowhere above his city.

The glass was created via vitrification, which is the process of turning a material into glass. The organic material in the brain was subjected to extremely high temperatures, at least 510C (950F), and then quickly cooled.

Forensic anthropologist Pier Paolo Petrone of Universita di Napoli Federico II, one of the study’s principal investigators, stated, “The glass formed as a result of this process allowed for an integral preservation of the biological brain material and its microstructures.”

He went on to say: “The only other kind of biological glass that we have proof of is that which is created in a few uncommon instances of wood vitrification, which have been discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum on occasion.

“However, in no other case in the world have vitrified organic human or animal remains ever been found.”