However, the concept pre-dates the naming of these establishments, as evidence suggests commercial food preparation may have existed during the age of the city of Pompeii, and urban sales of prepared foods may have existed in China during the Song Dynasty.

Dual-action suction pumps were found in the city of Pompeii.

Suburban villas on the edge of cities were also known, such as the Middle and Late Republican villas that encroached on the Campus Martius, at that time on the edge of Rome, and which can be also seen outside the city walls of Pompeii.

: Not to be confused with Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79.

The sand has preserved the city to such an extent it has been referred to as the " Pompeii of the Silk Road.

The city is mainly famous for the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii, located in the zone of Pompei Scavi.

The store was operational when the Des Moines Valley Railroad made it to Kesho in December 1869 ; however, a November 24, 1870 newspaper article from the Iowa Northwest Newspaper reads, “ The city has disappeared from the face of the earth — not like Pompeii — but it has gone off on wheels.

Category: Pompeii ( ancient city )

Naples is the most visited city in the area, and the ruins of Pompeii are the most visited sights.

This wall painting found in the Roman city of Pompeii is an example of a primary source about people in Pompeii in Roman times.

Pompeii worms get their name from the Roman city of Pompeii that was destroyed during an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

The ancient city of Pompeii was completely lost during a volcanic eruption in the 1st century CE, its uncovered ruins now preserved as a World Heritage Site.

On the contrary, precisely by being engulfed and covered up for many centuries, only to be rediscovered and provide modern archaeologists with a uniquely preserved Roman city, gave Pompeii its enduring fame – far too late for its hapless first century citizens to have any benefit.

His house still stands and can be seen in the ruins of the city Pompeii.

Of the 153 tablets discovered, 16 document contracts between Iucundus and the city of Pompeii ; the remaining 137 are receipts from auctions on behalf of third parties.

Remaining frescos from the Roman city of Pompeii demonstrate that irrumatio was one of the specific Roman sexual acts, the others being fututio, fellatio, pedicatio and cunnilingus.

Amedeo Maiuri ( January 7, 1886-April 7, 1963 ) was a renowned Neapolitan archaeologist, famous for his archaeological investigations of the Roman city of Pompeii which was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August of AD 79.

Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

The tabula is thought to date from the fifth century It shows the city of Constantinople, founded in 328, yet it still shows Pompeii, not rebuilt after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79.

Elaborating on this theme, the album explores the story of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city that was both lost to and preserved by a volcanic eruption.

* " Mademoiselle Nobs " from Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii ( 1971 ) who " sings " a song with the band.

Ancient Rome | Roman folding doors at Pompeii ( 1st century Common Era | CE ).

) in the ruins of Pompeii, and others at Herculaneum, were completed in buon fresco.

The term graffiti referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii.

The earliest known Roman amphitheatre was built at Pompeii by Sullan colonists, around 70 BCE.

It may have been added to mend a break in antiquity or after, or the result of a conversion from an original amphora form ( paralleled by a similar blue-glass cameo vessel from Pompeii )-it was definitely attached to the bottom from at least 1826.

The well preserved ruins of the ancient town often are compared to the spectacular ruins at Pompeii in Italy.

Excavated in 1893, the year of the silver wedding anniversary of Italy's King Humbert and his wife, Margherita of Savoy, who have supported archaeological fieldwork at Pompeii.

* The painting " Alexander the Great confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos ", detail of mosaic floor decoration from Pompeii, Italy is made.

The Romans invented the seaside villa: a vignette in a frescoed wall at the house of Lucretius Fronto in Pompeii still shows a row of seafront pleasure houses, all with porticos along the front, some rising up in porticoed tiers to an altana at the top that would catch a breeze on the most stifling evenings ( Veyne 1987 ill. p 152 )

It was considered a divinity of the Genius type at the time of the eruption of 79 AD: it appears under the inscribed name Vesuvius as a serpent in the decorative frescos of many lararia, or household shrines, surviving from Pompeii.

Spoons from Pompeii displayed at Naples National Archaeological Museum.

Evidence of furniture survives from the Neolithic Period and later in antiquity in the form of paintings, such as the wall Murals discovered at Pompeii ; sculpture, and examples have been excavated in Egypt and found in tombs in Ghiordes, in modern day Turkey.

A graffito at Pompeii reads quisque ama valia, which in Classical Latin would read quisquis amat valeat (" may whoever loves be strong / do well ").

Other early examples include the basilica at Pompeii ( late 2nd century BC ).

* Karl Jakob Weber ( 1712 – 1764 ), Swiss architect and engineer ; lead first organized excavations at Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae

O ' Brien continued to work with Merian C. Cooper at RKO on a number of projects including the epic The Last Days of Pompeii ( 1935 ) and The Dancing Pirate ( 1936 ), which was O ' Brien's first Technicolor production.

The success of the film version of Up Pompeii in 1971 saw British exhibitors vote him the ninth most popular star at the British box office that year.

A 19th-century reproduction of a Greek bronze of Adonis found at Pompeii.

Calchas presides at the sacrifice of Iphigeneia in a peristyle fresco from Pompeii.

* Roman frescos found at Pompeii and Ercolano show Hermaphroditus in various styles, alone and interacting with satyrs, Pan and Silenus.

Hundreds of lararia, or family shrines, have been discovered at Pompeii, typically off the atrium, kitchen or garden, where the smoke of burnt offerings could vent through the opening in the roof.