But as scholars, researchers, and archaeologists continued to dig, finding amazing sites to explore in Pompeii, and Pliny the Younger's letters were lost, the date of August 24, 79AD was challenged.

These letters concern an episode which marks the ... takes place in the second and third centuries. In the year 112, Pliny the Younger was faced with a dilemma. He was the governor in the Roman ...

A thick layer of volcanic mud preserved Pompeii as it was in 79 CE, offering a unique glimpse into life in the Roman Empire.

They came from Pliny the Younger, an elite lawyer and ... The charcoal inscription supports that theory, the Pompeii archaeology team said. His letter to Tacitus was written some 20 years after ...

Herculaneum and the nearby city of Pompeii were engulfed by the ... eruption of Vesuvius was recorded by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, in two letters written to the historian Tacitus.

These letters concern an episode which marks the ... takes place in the second and third centuries. In the year 112, Pliny the Younger was faced with a dilemma. He was the governor in the Roman ...