{"id":155159,"date":"2025-03-13T23:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T22:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=155159"},"modified":"2025-03-13T23:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T22:34:54","slug":"glass-brain-of-vesuvius","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/glass-brain-of-vesuvius\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass brain of Vesuvius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man&#8217;s brain turned to glass in hot ash cloud from Vesuvius. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/nearly-2000-year-old-roman-military-sun-hat\/\">Nearly 2<\/a>,000 years after a young man died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, scientists have discovered that his brain was preserved when it turned to glass in an extremely hot ash cloud.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Scientists found the glass in 2020 and speculated that it was a fossilized brain, but they didn\u2019t know how it was made. The victim was about 20 years old when the volcano erupted in 79 CE, near modern-day Naples. Scientists now believe that a 510-degree Celsius (1,100-degree Fahrenheit) ash cloud surrounded the brain and then cooled very quickly, turning the organ into glass.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the only known case of human tissue or any organic material naturally turning into glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":155156,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61,77],"class_list":["post-155159","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/155159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/155159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=155159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}