August
12
/ 2021
A place that sold street food, buried beneath volcanic debris in Pompeii for almost 2000 years, is reopening. The Pompeii food stall is an amazing discovery for so many reasons. For decades, archaeologists excavating at the sophisticated Roman city of Pompeii, in southern Italy’s Campania region, have found countless ancient cultural treasures frozen in time beneath meters of ash and pumice created by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The preserved features include excavated street ruins and houses that visitors can freely explore today. Reopening the Pompeii Fast Food Stall Now, the Guardian reports that Pompeii will reopen the recently unearthed “ thermopolium,” an older version of Italy's “tavole calde,” to sell “hot food” to history-hungry tourists
