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23 January 202014.28 The mysterious skull preserved at the Academy of Healthcare Art in Rome could belong to Pliny the Elder. This is indicated by the results of 2 years of research in collaboration with the Cnr and the Sapienza universities of Rome, Florence and Macerata. The data were presented in Rome, in the conference for the 100 years of the Academy. So far, it has been tradition: but the analyzes of the skull, jaw, teeth and DNA seem to confirm it: the skull is of the studiso, who died in Stabia in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79.