Archeologists discover a 2,000-year-old painting of a pizza-like dish while excavating a site in the Italian city of Pompeii|@pompeii_sites|via Twitter
Archeologists excavating a site in the Italian city of Pompeii came across a 2,000-year-old fresco painting depicting food, in which one dish is a flat, round piece of dough with toppings, just like a pizza.
But the iconic dish didn't exist around 79 AD when Mount Vesuvius engulfed the Roman city of Pompeii in volcanic ash. Experts point out that the “characteristic ingredients” of a pizza, like tomatoes and mozzarella, are missing in the painting. They believe they weren’t available during the era of the painting.
A statement by archeologists published on the Pompeii archaeological website says the item could be “a distant ancestor to the modern dish.”