This Might Be The Oldest-Ever Image of Pizza 🍕 | Pompeii: The New Dig

[@fuferito]

I can tell from her accent while she speaks Italian that she is a local from the Napoli area, and that is truly heartwarming.

[@angelasaunders3558]

Amazing how the colors were preserved

[@leilaniraine]

being this early for a pbs video about pizza is a beautiful moment in my life rn

[@RobertaFierro-mc1ub]

These are the little things we take for granted..

[@matthew-jy5jp]

PBS is our national treasure. I love everything PBS and it's affiliates do. 😊 thank you

[@RobertaFierro-mc1ub]

PBS always had the coolest stuff on tv when I was growing up. My Father was the one who really introduced us to Channel Thirteen. This was a big deal in the early 1970's! We had never been exposed to alot of these documentaries in Public Schools. We had reel to reel film.projectors back then, everything was so large and clunky. The huge white always unstable at the base, white screen with the holes through it..I loved P.S.165.

[@A_Clark]

Was the pizza discovered inside the remains of a hut?

[@Jai_BestLife]

*Slowly stands, and gives a hearty, slow-building clap*

[@sforza209]

Hahahaha

[@joestitz539]

Not a hut so. More a house dwelling.

[@joestitz539]

The pizza not cut in slices. Would be required to actually BE a pizza then. But it's strikingly similar. But if I was a painter hired by a homeowner, doing as homeowner asked, then likely that homeowner wouldn't have known of a precut meat like a pizza, to tell the painter 'I want this to appear cut in slices. Yet that's not the case in the depiction painting. SO, not likely a pizza really. :(

[@Francois_L_7933]

I'm always amazed at how luxurious Roman houses were for their time.

[@durangodoug338]

Important for our midwestern friends to note: it doesn’t look like a casserole.

[@dhoopkinaray]

Yeah but, do they deliver ?

[@RedStallion2000]

Pompeiizza !!! 😁

[@koffypr1]

The ultimate Italian.

[@1957loek]

That was a Focaccia a kind of pita, ancestor of Pizza whereby its formula was set in 17th century in Napoli. Archeolog and gastronom Mr Kubilay Özben made a great explanation for this.

[@telebubba5527]

Why they had to talk this down is beyond me. It would have tasted better than any ham sandwich anytime. They used what they had and it looks fine to me. Not all pizza's have to have tomato on them!

[@Hughes81]

Still better than Papa Johns.

[@Under_Sky_Third_Gaia]

For reals

[@bbartky]

Are they still around? Every one near me closed down years ago.

[@telebubba5527]

@@bbartky I have one in my neighborhood, as well as all the others. But I prefer to go to a real Italian instead of these fake ones.

[@curiousworld7912]

Some things are just classic. :)

[@FranziskaFriend-mf7bj]

Wow interesting

[@douglasboyle6544]

As long as it's not Chicago Style...

[@alwaystheone]

Okay you guys crazy and very blunt about a picture of a pizza. It is not that serious 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Getschakter]

original recipe

[@gdpianosrock]

But if tomatoes came from the new world, there would not be pizza sauce until after the late 1400s??