It includes books on geography ... The clouds had been caused by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder wanted to reassure the people of Pompeii and help his friends there out of any ...

His own father died when Pliny was still very young and he was adopted by his uncle, Pliny the Elder. This was clearly ... comes from the nine books of letters that he published between 100 ...

The earliest use of wheat paste may have occurred with the manufacture of papyrus, as documented in 77 CE by Pliny the Elder ...