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..

So did Pliny the Younger record things incorrectly? His letter to Tacitus was written some 20 years after the eruption in 79 AD. And the original copies have not survived the intervening 1,939 years.

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, ...