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Archaeologists working in a Pompeii site have discovered a painting depicting a food that looks suspiciously like pizza.

That doughy disc with delectable toppings seen in a 2,000-year-old painting is not a pizza, experts insist. But can we get one delivered anyway?

Historian Bettany Hughes has revealed on the upcoming Channel 5 documentary Pompeii: Secrets Of The Dead that a pregnant woman was styling her hair when tragedy struck.

Analysis of Vesuvius' victims in the town of Herculaneum indicate that eggs and dairy may have been considered unmanly – and that a seafood diet was not for girls

Roman men and women in the ancient Italian town of Herculaneum - which was buried under volcanic ash and pumice by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 - had very different diets, a new study shows. Researchers led by the University of York...

WASHINGTON: A team of archeologists examining the remains of victims from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD have discovered coastal people of the time ate far more fish than modern Italians, with men getting more of the high-status food than women.

ANCIENT Roman men loved to tuck into a seafood feast - but women stuck to cheaper meat and vegetables, new research by the University of York has…