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While researchers are not quite ready to use the date Pliny the Younger claimed Pompeii was destroyed, they believe it could be accurate.
Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.
The 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 ...
‘We had tremors for several days’ Roman author Pliny the Younger documented the violent shaking ground as the volcano erupted in two known letters.
Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The latest entry in their ongoing e-journal ...
The eruption of Vesuvius buried Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum in ash. Pliny the Younger was an eyewitness to the disaster. The exact location of Pompeii was unknown for hundreds of years.
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.
Vesuvius engulfed Pompeii, Pliny the Younger recalled, in darkness that was "as if the light has gone out of a room that is locked and sealed." Chiara Goia ...
Scientists unearthed skeletons crushed by an earthquake in the ancient city of Pompeii, adding to the destruction caused by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Describe the scene for me if you will in the courtroom of Pliny the Younger. What happened? About the year 112 an important event takes place that bring us on the stage in a new way in the history ...
Researchers "have always had an inkling that seismic activity contributed to the city’s destruction," said The New York Times, as even the ancient writer Pliny the Younger, who witnessed the ...