A skull discovered almost a century ago on a shore near Pompeii might, just might, be that of Roman naturalist and military leader Pliny the Elder, new research finds. The jawbone associated with ...

Among the achievements of the ancient Roman Empire still acclaimed today, historians list things like aqueducts, roads, legal theory, exceptional architecture and the spread of Latin as the ...

The uncle, known as Pliny the Elder, ... It was a pious duty to honour the dead. Maybe the nephew, unable to do this in life, did so in his account of his uncle’s heroic death.

According to Mr. Cionci, the idea for Project Pliny came from a book — “Indagine sulla Scomparsa di un Ammiraglio,” or “Inquiry On The Death of An Admiral” — written by military ...

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 ...

NAPLES, Italy - A massive Roman villa that stood 2,000 years ago and is thought to have ties to Roman scholar and military commander Pliny the Elder was recently discovered during municipal work ...

The lavish first-century C.E. villa was located in the Roman military port city of Misenum. Italian Ministry of Culture Archaeologists are investigating a 2,000-year-old villa unearthed during the ...

An illustration of Pliny the Elder, who perished in the Mount Vesuvius eruption of A.D. 79. (Image credit: Shutterstock) The Pliny mystery. Just before his death, Pliny — also known as Gaius ...

NAPLES, Italy - A massive Roman villa that stood 2,000 years ago and is thought to have ties to Roman scholar and military commander Pliny the Elder was recently discovered during municipal work ...

But in the realm of articulating and preserving current knowledge about nature, one Roman surpassed all others. He was the polymath Gaius Plinius Secundus, aka Pliny the Elder, the original compiler ...

NAPLES, Italy - A massive Roman villa that stood 2,000 years ago and is thought to have ties to Roman scholar and military commander Pliny the Elder was recently discovered during municipal work ...