Proto-pizza might be more like it, given that the city of Pompeii was buried by a volcano in 79 A.D., nearly 2,000 years before anything modern civilization might recognize as a pie came into ...

Pompeii , an ancient city near Naples, Italy, was completely swallowed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. In Pompeii, where the situation at that time was left clean because it was buried ...

Researchers discovered the 2,000-year-old painting at the Pompeii archaeological site. But it's probably not pizza, which was invented later.

A fresco discovered at the Pompeii archaeological site looks like a pizza, but it's not, experts say. Tomatoes and mozzarella were not available when the fresco was painted some 2,000 years ago.

Indeed, ancient food (not just murals of the stuff) ... Italy, which is generally considered the modern birthplace of pizza. Pompeii—now an archaeological site—was erased from maps in 79, ...

Colorful murals dating back thousands of years discovered in Pompeii, photos show. They depict fish, squid, birds and a wild boar.