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.

Archaeological Park of Pompeii “The magical breakthrough of pizza came in 1889,” said Luciano. “That was when Queen Margherita of Savoy, consort of King Umberto I, ...

The food depicted in the roughly 2,000-year-old fresco did not include cheese and tomato but could be a “distant ancestor” of pizza, archaeologists said.

The doomed city of Pompeii is more known for the massive volcanic eruption and earthquakes that destroyed the city in 79 CE than its culinary offerings.However, people in the ancient city near ...

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii said Tuesday they had found what might have been the precursor to the modern-day pizza depicted on ...

Italian archaeologists digging in Pompeii uncovered a 2,000-year-old fresco featuring what looks remarkably like a modern-day pizza– and some believe it might actually be a direct ancestor of ...

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 ...

It’s well-painted, well-preserved, and very much not an actual depiction of a pizza. Still, flatbread shouldn’t have to apologize for not being as iconic.

Like the rest of Pompeii, the site was frozen in time with the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It is part of the Pompeii Archaeological Park. The “pizza” rests on a silver tray alongside a ...

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.

Is that pizza in a Pompeii painting? Experts say probably not by: The Associated Press. Posted: Jun 27, 2023 / 10:30 PM EDT. Updated: Jun 28, 2023 / 06:51 AM EDT.