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 ...

Old Roman Era Clifftop Beach House With 360-Degree Island View Discovered, Used for Strategic Military Purposes Workers ...

Pliny the Elder. "On the 24th of August, about one in the afternoon, my mother desired him to observe a cloud..." he wrote in a letter to Tacitus, a Roman senator and historian, about the events ...

His own father died when Pliny was still very young and he was adopted by his uncle, Pliny the Elder. This was clearly a life-changing experience, but one that was common to most Romans.

Pliny The Elder once wrote of elephants: "Of all other living creatures, they cannot abide a mouse or a rat." Elephants being afraid of tiny rodents has become a popular theme in folklore and ...

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In his 37-volume “Natural History,” first published in 77 C.E., the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder explored the minutiae of everyday life. The encyclopedic work describes the places where people ...

"In vino veritas" [In wine, there is truth] —Pliny the Elder (AD 24-79) Recently, a white Alabama man was sentenced to more than a year in prison after he left threatening voicemails for two ...

The methods for creating and shaping glass originated in the eastern region of the Empire, according to Pliny the Elder, a 1st century C.E. Roman author and naturalist. In Natural History XXXVI.65, ...

According to Pliny the Elder, "Many persons have quite a mania for pigeons — building towns for them on the top of their roofs, and taking a pleasure in relating the pedigree and noble origin of ...