While researchers are not quite ready to use the date Pliny the Younger claimed Pompeii was destroyed, they believe it could ...

Academics have spent centuries debating over the real date on which Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. Now, the park itself has ...

The squirting cucumber shoots its seeds so fast that scientists had to use techniques like high-speed videography to record ...

Describe the scene for me if you will in the courtroom of Pliny the Younger. What happened? About the year 112 an important event takes place that bring us on the stage in a new way in the history ...

They came from Pliny the Younger, an elite lawyer and author of ancient Rome, who wrote about the death of his even more famous uncle, Pliny the Elder. "On the 24th of August, about one in the ...

Solder, lawyer and writer, Pliny the Elder’s (23 – 79 AD) research into the natural world formed the basis of scientific authority for centuries to come. He died during the eruption of Mount ...

These are mistletoe plants. Aristotle (383-322 BC) thought these growths just appeared out of nowhere. But one of his ...

The original date of August 24th is derived from the letters of Pliny the Younger, who witnessed the eruption and documented ...

Pliny's World offers readers a translation of the Natural History's opening books unprecedented for its completeness, accuracy and accessibility. Here, in quirky, often breathless style, Pliny lays ...

The Greek philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea (1st–2nd century AD) observed that our lives are divided between relaxation and ...