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Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a painting which depicts what might be the precursor to the Italian pizza.
The flatbread depicted in the 2,000-year-old fresco “may be a distant ancestor of the modern dish”, Italy’s culture ministry said.
But it lacks the classic ingredients to technically be considered a pizza.
The fresco was found in the hall of a house next to a bakery during recent digs at the site in southern Italy.
I don’t know which ingredients are required but I don’t think they had tomatoes at that time. Wasn’t they discovered in the new world?
Correct. They were over 400 years from having tomato sauce on pizza. They did have pesto, as the article mentioned.
Make that over 1400 years.
Yes and even when they were introduced there was a lot of resistance to eating them, as well as potatoes. Both are in the nightshade family, which were commonly known to be poisonous. There was a lot of weird superstition about their use in witchcraft, etc