Vitrified And Preserved Human Brain

 

Recently, experts found an intact preserved human brain and vitrified from a remain of young man who is a victim of Mount Vesuvius’ eruption on A.D. 79 at the lost and buried city of Herculaneum in Italy. He was found lying face down on a wooden bed. He is believed to be on his 20s

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The preservation and vitrification were due to the extreme hot or heating and rapid cooling all together the news said and experts said.

It “….retain cell membranes as well as internal filaments, or structural proteins inside the cell, and tiny vesicles, or internal sacs that help transport proteins to the cell surface. “(Live Science)… as the news said.

“Preserved brain cells have been found in the remains of a young man who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. ……The transformation to glass occurred as a result of extreme heating and rapid cooling. "The results of our study show that the vitrification process occurred at Herculaneum, unique of its kind, has frozen the neuronal structures of this victim, preserving them intact until today," study lead author Pier Paolo Petrone, a forensic anthropologist at University Federico II of Naples in Italy, said in a statement.” (Live Science)

 

“The brain cells turned to glass after being exposed to an avalanche of hot ash.” (Live Science)

“….."The brain exposed to the hot volcanic ash must first have liquefied and then immediately turned into a glassy material by the rapid cooling of the volcanic ash deposit."(CNN)

“The researchers also found intact nerve cells in the spinal cord, which, like the brain, had been vitrified.”(CNN)

“The man's brain, researchers state, had been vitrified into a black glassy state after being exposed to extreme heat followed by rapid cooling.”(National Post)

The main point : A dead young man’s brain has been preserved and vitrified  and remain intact until today due to the condition present then when he was become a victim of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 79 A.D.

image from National Post website