![]() ![]() Although there will be no cooking on the site, visitors will be directed to a local restaurant where some of the ancient specials will be offered. ![]() Kits with the ingredients will be sold to visitors in the area around the restaurant with instructions on how to cook Roman specialties. Pompeii, the famous Roman archaeological site, still has one-third of its area left to be excavated, including the recently discovered Thermopolium of Regio V, an ancient snack bar. Researchers have tried to revive the city’s food by replanting - in the restaurant’s garden and in other open spaces - the fruits and vegetables that were part of the Roman diet: figs and olives, plums and grapes, as well as poppy, broom (a flowery bush), bramble (a prickly shrub) and mallow (an herb). Starting Thursday, visitors will do more than stroll around the restaurant’s tables and gaze at the kitchen tools that have stayed where residents left them when they were surprised by the eruption. The ancient graffiti of Pompeii brings together these two domains, the spatial and the temporal, anchoring the ideas of a group of people in time to the physical space they occupy. Buried by a catastrophic volcanic eruption almost 2,000 years ago, this ancient Roman city is seared into our. The eruption killed thousands of people, but a 20-foot-deep (6-meter-deep) cocoon of volcanic ash kept the city almost intact, providing precious information on domestic life in the ancient world. Explosion -Pompeii - a place whose very name conjures images of disaster. Pompeii’s busiest restaurant was buried with the rest of the prosperous city when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. ![]()
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