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.

By the beginning of the 2nd century, Romans were writing about Christians and Jesus. Pliny the Younger, proconsul in Asia Minor, in 111 A.D. wrote to Emperor Trajan in a letter: ...it was their ...

For centuries, Pliny the Younger's accounts of when Mount Vesuvius erupted, bringing an end to Pompeii were gospel. But as scholars, researchers, and archaeologists continued to dig, finding ...