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.

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

These letters concern an episode which marks the ... takes place in the second and third centuries. In the year 112, Pliny the Younger was faced with a dilemma. He was the governor in the Roman ...

His motivation appears to have been simple: Pliny wanted fame. He hoped that these letters would help shape the history of the empire, but most of all he wanted them to make him famous.

Ever since archaeologists first discovered the ruins of Pompeii – the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount ...