In the ruins of Herculaneum were found the fragments of a brain vitrified

The TINY fragments of brain, not just charred like the rest of the body, but is vitrified by heat shock which has left no escape, are still there. Sleeping, probably, the guardian of the College of the priests of augustus in Herculaneum, when the wave of heat, the dense cloud of ash and lava rolled from the flanks of Vesuvius, has wrapped his body, in the bed that was inside the building now empty. Only he remained, and perhaps has not noticed anything, when his skull exploded. Among the charred remains of two thousand years ago, for the first time, were found the remains of the cerebral matter has become as glass. Human proteins discovery is the subject of an article published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, signed by the anthropologist Pier Paolo Petrone , of the Laboratory of Osteobiologia human and forensic Anthropology, Department of biomedical Science advanced the University of Naples. According to Petrone this is the first time ever in the archaeological context, in the literature of anthropology and in forensic medicine, that the remains of the cerebral matter are found preserved in this way, because of a volcanic eruption: “I noticed that something was shining in the ashes, including the remains of the skull exploded - remember the Intervention - were fragments of glassy black, like obsidian, but very crumbly. We have taken some samples: the analysis of proteomics highlighted fatty acids, triglycerides, and human hair. Could not be other than the brain.”