Tag: Pompeii

• Wednesday, June 28th 2023 - 19:51 UTC

  Do you love pizza? So did the Romans two thousand years ago in Pompeii

  

  A 2,000 year old fresco depicting what might be a predecessor of the classical Italian Pizza has been found in the ruins of the city of Pompeii. Archeologists assume that the flat bread portrayed in the fresco, next to a wine goblet, may have been eaten with fruits such as pomegranate or dates, or dressed with species, pistachio and a type of pesto sauce.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Hot food and drinks shop found buried under the volcanic ashes or Pompeii

  

  Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.