F or 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 ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

Pompeii Experts Back Up Pliny’s Historical Account of Vesuvius Eruption. ... Pliny the Younger wrote two letters about the eruption the Roman historian Tacitus between 107 C.E. and 108 C.E..

Pliny the Younger was an eyewitness to the disaster. The exact location of Pompeii was unknown for hundreds of years. Workers at the earliest excavation ran off with artifacts they found.

PLINY THE YOUNGER. Describe the scene ... earlier who actually died going on a rescue mission at the time of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the inundation of Pompeii. Pliny himself was there.

T he 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 ...

Escaping the disaster. Pliny the Younger, whose writings are windows into life in the ancient Roman world, was around 18 at the time of the disaster.

Roman author Pliny the Younger documented the violent shaking ground as the volcano erupted in two known letters. ... CREDIT: Pompeii Archaeological Park. Like Pliny, ...

Pliny the Elder, a naval commander, was killed by noxious pyroclastic fumes as he led an emergency evacuation by sea. Pompeii alone is believed to have been inhabited by about 20,000 people. Most ...

It has been nearly 2,000 years since the ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed, ... as even the ancient writer Pliny the Younger, who witnessed the eruption, mentioned earthquakes in his works.