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 ...

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.

Born into a wealthy family who lived in northern Italy, Pliny was too young to have been affected by the civil wars that followed the death of Nero. His own father died when Pliny was still very ...

They came from Pliny the Younger, an elite lawyer and author of ancient Rome, who wrote about the death of his even more famous uncle, Pliny the Elder. "On the 24th of August, about one in the ...

In the 1st Century, Roman author Pliny the Younger recorded that a bearded apparition rattling chains was haunting a house in Athens, Greece - but outside of ghost stories and legendary spirits ...

His death during the eruption of Vesuvius was recorded by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, in two letters written to the historian Tacitus. "The ash already falling became hotter and thicker as the ...