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 ...

Nearly 4 million people visited the ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii in 2023 ... say the flatbread depicted in the 2,000 year-old fresco may be a precursor to the Italian dish.