https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45874858
The rationale being that as we don't have the original letter of Pliny the Younger we are reliant on scribal copies which could have made mistakes over the centuries.
Bad news for bible bullshit which suffers from the same problem!
Quote:Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered an inscription they say may show that the history books have been wrong for centuries.
Historians have long believed that Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August 79 AD, destroying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii.
But now, an inscription has been uncovered dated to mid-October - almost two months later.
The rationale being that as we don't have the original letter of Pliny the Younger we are reliant on scribal copies which could have made mistakes over the centuries.
Bad news for bible bullshit which suffers from the same problem!
Quote:So did Pliny the Younger record things incorrectly?
His letter to Tacitus was written some 20 years after the eruption in 79 AD. And the original copies have not survived the intervening 1,939 years.
Instead, our modern reading of the text is based on translations and transcriptions made over the centuries. In fact, various copies of the letters have contained dates ranging anywhere from August to November - though 24 August has long been accepted.
The differences between the texts could easily have been influenced by confusion over the ancient and modern systems of counting days.
