Wed 28 June 2023:
On the wall of a home in the historic Roman city of Pompeii, a fresco was discovered that appears to be an ancestor of the Italian pizza, Italy’s Culture Ministry said, on Tuesday.
According to the ministry, archaeologists believe the flat bread shown in the artwork next to a wine goblet may have been served with fruits like pomegranates or dates or seasoned with spices and a kind of pesto sauce.
While it cannot technically be considered a pizza, since it lacks classic ingredients such as tomato and mozzarella, what was found in Pompeii “may be a distant relative of the modern dish”, according to a statement.
Pompeii, destroyed by an eruption of the Mount Vesuvius volcano nearly 2,000 years ago, is only about 23 km away from Naples, the modern-day home of the Italian pizza, a UNESCO-protected food.
Sembra una pizza, quello che si vede su un dipinto pompeiano di 2000 anni fa, ma ovviamente non lo può essere, a rigore, dato che mancavano alcuni degli ingredienti più caratteristici, ovvero pomodori e mozzarella. @LionTelevision@MiC_Italia pic.twitter.com/lBbbPjHNpX
— Pompeii Sites (@pompeii_sites) June 27, 2023
The fresco was discovered in the hall of a house that had a bakery attached to it, which was partly excavated in the 19th century and where digging resumed in January, the culture ministry said.
The Pompeii site, not discovered until the 16th century, has seen a burst of recent archaeological activity aimed at halting years of decay and neglect, largely thanks to a recently concluded 105-million-euro ($114.85 million) EU-funded project.
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