"Surrounded by ancient wonders and culture in Italy, the most exciting thing for him was getting to use a landline Pliny the Younger was just 17 years old when he witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Watching from across the bay, he saw the ash cloud sweep down and lay waste to Herculaneum, and its more famous sister city, Pompeii."
"Pliny provided the first written documentation of the eruption in letters, detailing the size and shape of the ash cloud and how it moved across the slopes, killing all in its path. His eyewitness accounts were so significant that volcanologists call them Plinian eruptions."
Surrounded by ancient wonders and culture in Italy, the most exciting thing for him was getting to use a landline. Pliny the Younger was 17 when he witnessed the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius from across the bay. He observed an ash cloud sweep down the slopes and lay waste to Herculaneum and Pompeii. He produced the first written documentation of the eruption in letters, describing the size, shape, and movement of the ash cloud across the slopes. The ash and flows killed inhabitants in their path. Volcanologists name similar explosive events Plinian eruptions because of the detail and significance of his eyewitness accounts.
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