Ancient texts speak of a strange and valuable metal known as orichalcum. The mystical material was often dismissed as a ...

Old Roman Era Clifftop Beach House With 360-Degree Island View Discovered, Used for Strategic Military Purposes Workers accidentally unearthed a 2,000-year-old clifftop beach house while attempting to ...

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 ...

Upon his return to Pontus, which was likely welcomed by those who remained loyal to his father, Mithradates VI had his mother ...

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. "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 ...

One of the seven ancient wonders of the world, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus has an enduring influence on architecture and ...

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 ...

In the year 77, Roman writer Pliny the Elder praised their superior quality. In 1493, when he sailed across the Atlantic for the second time, Christopher Columbus had Iberian pigs aboard his caravels.

According to Pliny the Elder, in Britain, druid priests would mark the important date by gathering mistletoe and sacrificing bulls – which was also likely a practical measure to limit the number ...

As Pliny, the Elder famously said, "There's truth in wine." At the high point in the empire's history of wine, experts estimate that a bottle of was being consumed each day for every citizen.

It is now thought he may have been a senior officer in the rescue mission launched by historian and naval commander Pliny the Elder. Herculaneum and the nearby city of Pompeii were engulfed by the ...