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Pompeii just keeps on giving

  • amyguessmclarty
  • Aug 10, 2022
  • 1 min read

Always a little macabre, the ruins and preserved skeletal remains intrigue and inform year after year after year... Recently, it was confirmed that what appeared to be glass inside the skull of a man killed there is indeed vitrified brain matter. This article was published by Smithsonian Magazine in October 2020. I just recently came across it while researching images for the site. Read on. I took the photo below on a 2010 visit to Pompeii.


 
 
 

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Lauren Felice Jarocki
Lauren Felice Jarocki
Jun 01, 2023

I may never be able to look out the window again without vitrified brain matter coming to mind. Through a glass, darkly

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juleshemby26
Aug 24, 2022

It is eerie, how interesting!

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