So if it looks like pizza, smells like pizza, and tastes like pizza – why isn’t it pizza? Take a look at this 2,000-year-old painting at Pompeii that shows pizza’s “distant ancestor.”
The fresco was found in a newly-excavated area of Pompeii on the wall of an ancient Pompeian house, according to, smells like pizza, and tastes like pizza – why isn’t it pizza?
That’s because several characteristic ingredients of pizza are missing, namely the mozzarella and tomatoes, according to the experts.seen on the fresco is a flat focaccia covered in fruit. Specialists said pomegranates and perhaps a date can be for sure made out in the artwork, and that the fruit was possibly covered in spices or pesto.
In the area where this fresco was found, archeologists had already unearthed an annexed bakery nearby. In the working areas near the oven, the skeletons of three victims have been found in the past weeks,
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