The ancient Roman writer, Pliny the Younger, begins his description of his uncle’s death by conjuring up an event which had already become legend by the time he memorialised it. He was writing ...

Among the achievements of the ancient Roman Empire still acclaimed today, historians list things like aqueducts, roads, legal theory, exceptional architecture and the spread of Latin as the ...

According to Mr. Cionci, the idea for Project Pliny came from a book — “Indagine sulla Scomparsa di un Ammiraglio,” or “Inquiry On The Death of An Admiral” — written by military ...

Solder, lawyer and writer, Pliny the Elder’s (23 – 79 AD) research into the natural world formed the basis of scientific authority for centuries to come. He died during the eruption of Mount ...

2,000-year-old beach house discovered during building work By Silvia Marchetti ... Indeed it’s possible that Pliny the Elder would have witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 from ...

There is admittedly no finite evidence — written or otherwise — tying the newly unearthed villa directly to Pliny the Elder. As the geographer Strabo noted, the coastline around the Bay of ...

Archaeologists think the villa belonged to the Roman writer and military commander Pliny the Elder, who was killed while trying to rescue friends from the A.D. 79 eruption of the volcano Vesuvius ...

NAPLES, Italy - A massive Roman villa that stood 2,000 years ago and is thought to have ties to Roman scholar and military commander Pliny the Elder was recently discovered during municipal work ...

But in the realm of articulating and preserving current knowledge about nature, one Roman surpassed all others. He was the polymath Gaius Plinius Secundus, aka Pliny the Elder, the original compiler ...

2,000-year-old beach house discovered during building work By Silvia Marchetti ... Indeed it’s possible that Pliny the Elder would have witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 from ...