Historians have been able to date the eruption of Vesuvius with apparent certainty thanks to ancient writings that purported to share first-hand accounts. They came from Pliny the Younger ...

His uncle is a very well known naturalist of a generation earlier who actually died going on a rescue mission at the time of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the inundation of Pompeii.

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 ...

The first hint of the Avellino eruption of Vesuvius emerged in the early 1970s ... assuming the classic shape—classic ever since Pliny the Younger first described it in a letter to the Roman ...

An ancient beach buried by the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago ... by the admiral and illustrious Roman scholar Pliny the Elder. The beach site, revealed on ...

Vesuvius is part of the Campanian Volcanic Arc ... The eruption of 79 AD, famously described in letters by Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus, stands as one of the most catastrophic ...

After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D., bodies buried in mud and ash eventually decomposed, leaving spaces where they used to be. Casts were created from the voids in ...

As a teenager Pliny witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius from his home across the bay. As a teenager Pliny witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius from his home across the bay. Many years later, following a ...