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.

Pompeii Experts Back Up Pliny’s Historical Account of Vesuvius Eruption. ... Pliny the Younger wrote two letters about the eruption the Roman historian Tacitus between 107 C.E. and 108 C.E..

WHEN VESUVIUS BURIED POMPEII IN A.D. 79; The Younger Pliny's Account of the First Great Eruption. DARKNESS; RAIN OF ASHES Poisonous Vapor Which Killed the Elder Pliny -- Description of the Panic ...

The traditionally accepted date for the tragedy, August 24th, 79 AD, comes from the correspondence of Pliny the Younger, the only contemporary witness to document the catastrophe in his letters.

T he devastation of prosperous, unsuspecting Pompeii in a.d. 79 is the stuff of pathos. Vesuvius spared nothing and no one. Pliny the Younger’s blow-by-blow account is definitive. Suffice it to ...

Seventeen-year-old Pliny the Younger was visiting the town of Misenum, across the Bay of Naples from the eruption, with his family at the time. His letters detailing the exploits of his uncle have ...

In the year 112, Pliny the Younger was faced with a dilemma. He was the governor in the Roman province of Bithynia (modern day Turkey) when a number of Christians were brought into his court.

Escaping the disaster. Pliny the Younger, whose writings are windows into life in the ancient Roman world, was around 18 at the time of the disaster.

Roman author Pliny the Younger documented the violent shaking ground as the volcano erupted in two known letters. ... Pompeii Archaeological Park. Like Pliny, ...