Through the thinking glass: Scientists have discovered networks of neurons preserved in an ancient Roman's glass brain
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The remains of the man with the glass brain -- his skull is at the bottom of the image
The bed where the man's body was discovered -- the rest of Herculaneum had fled for the sea
The glass brain chips were found in the remains of a man at the archaeological site at Herculaneum
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is one of the history's most famous natural disasters
Brain cells preserved in glass shards of the man
A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass a…