Archaeologists have determined that an individual’s brain was turned to glass during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
    • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The science actually lends support to the idea that a crystal skull can be some kind of alien data storage device.

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This could not have happened if the individual was heated solely by pyroclastic flows – high-speed currents of gas and other volcanic matter. The temperature of these flows from Vesuvius would not have reached higher than 465°C and would have cooled too slowly.

    Ok, so ignoring how that’s pretty low for a pyroclastic flow, I’m pretty sure the evidence for the ash arriving first is the bodies that were encased by it. If the pyroclastic flow hit first, I don’t think any of the actions the people were found in would have lasted long enough to be coated in the preserving ash.