Researchers from the Max Planck Institute found that at least one, if not both of the people were men. While the true nature ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 (Photo ... and perhaps the odd Latin treatise by writers including Pliny the Elder, Seales ...

This is not an exclusively modern feeling. Two thousand years ago, when Vesuvius erupted, a longing to make sense of what was happening lured antiquity’s most celebrated encyclopedist to his death.

In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, spewing gases and molten ... and perhaps the odd Latin treatise by writers including Pliny ...

Fortune favors the bold, Pliny the Elder declared as he sailed into danger on a rescue and reassurance mission occasioned by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Alas, not always. Pliny perished during ...

So our cohort confronted Latin texts in the sites that inspired them: we read Pliny on his uncle’s death atop Vesuvius, the volcano that killed him; Virgil on Aeneas’ descent into the underworld with ...

from where Pliny the Elder would have seen the Vesuvius Eruption, uncovered In an area already protected by ministerial archaeological restrictions due to the density of ancient testimonies scattered ...

One of my grandsons has decided he wants to become a woman. The only information I had was an email a couple of years ago.

In our first week, we will discuss the brief history of Pompeii and Herculaneum, including the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Pliny the Elder and the rescue efforts, the aftermath and the Roman efforts ...

(Pliny, by the way, was a casualty of the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79). The fascinating 13th century account of Iceland called The King’s Mirror uses the term Grampus for this species ...

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 ...