Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii
Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii Eat like a first-century Roman, using recent archaeological discoveries as your guide. Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii Copy Link An ancient Pompeiian may have enjoyed this meal of braised duck. Farrell Monaco In This Story In the second century, Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to the Roman historian Tacitus, recounting the early stages of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.* From his villa in Misenum, across the Bay of Naples from the volcano, he remembered seeing a dark cloud, shaped like an umbrella pine tree, fil...
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