The volcano erupted so violently that it froze the globe's climate with immeasurable damage - Yet the location of the volcano ...

Despite Pliny the Younger being the only person to have witnessed the demise of Pompeii and having written letters detailing the accounts of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, controversy swirls ...

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The latest entry in their ongoing e-journal ...

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 ...

For the last two years, Vesuvius has been unusually quiet, and has nearly made the world forget the frightful devastations which old eruptions have made, and Neapolitan lazzaroni and Hermitage ...

He died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Born into a wealthy family, Pliny’s first career was in the army. After rising to the rank of cavalry commander, he returned to Rome and semi ...

In the vast network of historical and scientific debates, few enigmas have sparked as much fascination as the exact date of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the ... comes from 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 ...

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...