Does This 2,000-Year-Old Roman Painting Show Pizza's Ancestor? - Chowhound

Food Arena/Shutterstock For almost as long as humans have existed on this planet, we've been obsessed with making bread and putting stuff on top of it. We even have artistic evidence of this tradition, the most recent of which was uncovered in Pompeii in 2023. A detailed rendering painted on an ancient wall (a home that was next door to a bakery) depicts what appears to be a silver tray with a goblet of red wine…