'Pizza' painting found in ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii

Reuters ^ | June 30, 2023 | Reporting by Cristina Carlevaro, editing by Alvise Armellini and Angus MacSwan

[SunkenCiv]

A fresco that depicts what might be an ancestor of the Italian pizza has been found on the wall of an house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy's Culture Ministry said on Tuesday.

Archaeologists presume that the flat bread depicted in the painting, next to a wine goblet, may have been eaten with fruits such as pomegranates or dates, or dressed with spices and a type of pesto sauce, the ministry said.

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.

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.

[Steve Van Doorn]

"Pineapples, like tomatoes, are a new World import, that only became known after Columbus’ discovery."

Actually our history is wrong. We've been in contact with the Americas prior to Noah's grandson Ophir that I'm aware of. Ophir was the one that shipped Salmons gold from the mines.
Ophir (19 on this map)
https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/93232/world-first-state-benedict-arias-montanus-sacrae-geogra-montanus

I can show more then this such as the Solutrean where known to be in France and Spain where on the East Coast 19,000 years ago.
Oat Island there is writings claimed to be from Vikings. It's not. Vikings didn't use dots as lettering. Closer to Phoenician alphabet likely Carthaginian or Amazigh.
Some time after the Romans came to power we seem to have lost contact.

[nwrep]

Ophir himself conceded that Columbus was here first.

[Libloather]

[dfwgator]

Find the Pope In The Pizza.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That’s a fascinating page about the history of the pineapple in ancient Rome. But the author ruins it all with his conclusion: “This means that the cities were not destroyed in 79 AD, but sometime after Columbus brought the pineapple back to share with the Europeans.”

What a ridiculous assertion.

[butlerweave]

Maybe it’s an open face sandwich , maybe they invented the sandwich

[AZJeep]

Flat bread was common everywhere.
Tomatoes came from America (Aztecs) in 1500ths.

[nwrep]

No. Tomatoes came from Columbus. Long live Columbus.

[j.havenfarm]

I’ve always honored the ancient roots of pizza by living my life by this motto:
“Delphinus cibus, glices retertus, linguis phoenicipteri, sic. Ananus comosus, nulo modo.”*

*”Dolphin meat, stuffed dormice, flamingo tongues, yes. Pineapple, no way.”

[Celtic Conservative]

They also used garum. 🤢

CC

[Celtic Conservative]

Brown mustard!

They are, after all German.

CC

[KarlInOhio]

Does it go well with an amphora of 2 denarii Carolus wine?

[Steve Van Doorn]

said, "Ophir himself conceded that Columbus was here first."
I can see you're joking.
I can show more. You likely don't care.

[bgill]

A post winner.

[TonyM]

Its DiGiornos!

[Steve Van Doorn]

It should say, not completely destroyed.
Though the people where killed. Likely from a volcanic gas of some type. They're not saying in any report i can find which means it wasn't a type of sulfur. It was likely a high concentration of CO2.

[nwrep]

Certain things have no credibility even among mainstream, conservative historical scholarship. Thank you.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Yet you didn’t look.

[Adder]

Garum...probably brushed with garam.

Mmmm...fish sauce.

Better ingredients...Papa Iohan

[SunkenCiv]

LOL