But it lacks the classic ingredients to technically be considered a pizza. The fresco was found in the ... excavations of Regio IX in the centre of Pompeii, one of the nine districts that the ...

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 ancient city of Pompeii, a small house filled with elaborate ... but she falls in love with her stepson Hippolytus. In the fresco, Hippolytus stands before a seated Phaedra, who is draped ...

But Pompeii is the gift that just keeps on giving ... the enigmatic decorative image of what many initially thought was a pizza (spoiler: it wasn’t!); to the physical skeletal remains of ...

It is a follow-up to a programme broadcast last year, following archaeologists excavating Pompeii that discovered a fresco depicting what was hailed as the world’s first pizza. This time there ...