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[DragoonKain]

This is pretty cool.

Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii

Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.

www.reuters.com

Looks like they served chicken, duck, and.... dog?

Architectural design not that different than what we use today. The Romans were so advanced.

 

[INC]

Even now, its probably better than Mexican food

 

[Imagine Wagons]

This stuff is so fascinating to me. Would their minds be blown away by a modern hot dog? Honestly sounds like they had a way better deal going on.

Just real interesting to know that the same mundane things have probably been going on for 2,000 years and probably will for another 2,000.

 

[Slayer-33]

Incredible

 

[EviLore]

 

[Papa]

How were the paintings so perfectly preserved?

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

Even now, its probably better than Mexican food

Shut the fuck up, Chipotle slaps

 

[DragoonKain]

How were the paintings so perfectly preserved?

The volcanic ash and rock when it hardened and buried everything kinda preserved everything. Kept it buried and out of the elements. No water or air or wind wearing away at it.

 

[EviLore]

How were the paintings so perfectly preserved?

Rapidly packed in 6 meters of ash. No weather erosion over time.

 

[DragoonKain]

I wonder how the food tasted. How well was it cooked? Was it seasoned? How advanced was that little kiosk? Was the food kept hot underneath there like modern ones? Or was it just dumped into large containers in there?

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if all of that was on the positive side. The Romans were so damn advanced, man. And Pompeii was a town for elites too if I remember right. Not sure if everyone who lived there was high status, but they probably had some good shit delivered there.

And those paintings are damn good.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Just real interesting to know that the same mundane things have probably been going on for 2,000 years and probably will for another 2,000.

Futurologists generally say the longer something has been around, the higher the chance is it will stay.

Even in 10000 years, a table will still be a table, and a wheel a wheel.

 

[Coolwhhip]

Its so weird that everyone that laid eyes on that have been dead for 2000 years.

 

[lachesis]

Wonder what kind of food did they eat 2000 years ago? I guess chicken is given, considering the painting... Fascinating stuff.
It looks quite modern and functional too.

 

[Entroyp]

Even now, its probably better than Mexican food

I bet you call Taco Bell Mexican food

 

[teezzy]

You guys think they had Baja Blast back then?

 

[triplestation]

i wonder what they were serving

ancient forms of pizza maybe

 

[JokerMM]

holy shit 79 AD....

 

[DoomGyver]

Why are the ducks upside down?

 

[DragoonKain]

There's a painting of a dog on one of them I wonder if they served dog

I did see in a documentary once that they analyzed the shit(literal shit) they found in Pompeii and it indicated a lot of them were eating fish.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Another place to add to the list after the COVID era ends.

 

[nush]

Its amazing to see the colour of the paint, not aged at all.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

The color is incredible. Makes you wonder how all those surviving statues and monuments actually looked like before centuries of weather damage. Coloring such a surface couldn’t have been that cheap back then, yet they did it for a simple food street stall. That yellow is something else, they always teach how the ancients made red and blue in school, but yellow is practically never talked about.

Another amazing thing is the art. How art in the western world regressed during the Middle Ages when people could draw and paint like that in the first century AD defies belief. It’s clear that the Byzantines were the true heirs of Rome in that matter, while medieval drawings from western Europe look like children’s efforts.

Rome was much more advanced than we like to think in retrospective. And yes, everyday life probably was more like today’s than we can imagine, only with less reading, slower news, and much longer travel times.
Mary Beard’s book SPQR has chapters dedicated to lower class people and workers in republican and Augustan Rome. Their problems and their daily lives are surprisingly modern.

 

[INC]

I bet you call Taco Bell Mexican food

Never had it

 

[kittoo]

Pompeii is amazing. Been there once and just sat on a small staircase in a house alone, thinking thousands of years ago people actually lived in that house and climbed those stairs. Maybe a brother and sister sat, playing games, at that very place where I was sitting.
The well preserved pictures are mind-blowing, like in the article above.

 

[Tesseract]

time is madness

 

[UnNamed]

How were the paintings so perfectly preserved?

For the same reason Mcdonald's hamburgers can stay intact for 20 years...

 

[kittoo]

Another amazing thing is the art. How art in the western world regressed during the Middle Ages when people could draw and paint like that in the first century AD defies belief. It’s clear that the Byzantines were the true heirs of Rome in that matter, while medieval drawings from western Europe look like children’s efforts.

Rome was much more advanced than we like to think in retrospective. And yes, everyday life probably was more like today’s than we can imagine, only with less reading, slower news, and much longer travel times.
Mary Beard’s book SPQR has chapters dedicated to lower class people and workers in republican and Augustan Rome. Their problems and their daily lives are surprisingly modern.

At risk of sounding a little offensive, its my personal belief that Abrahamic religions in general cause (In Islam's case) or used to cause (in case of all 3) a severe curtailing of art, culture, science and general quality of life. You look at Europe before Christianity and life seems much freer, at least in Roman and Greek cultures. Freedom of thought, great philosophers, multitude of colorful Gods and stories, openness about sexuality, prevalence of scientific thought and so on. Of course there were miseries and wars and what not, but at least thought policing seems to have been much lesser. The same was the case with Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc before arrival of Islam. Mesopotamia, Babylon, great works of art, libraries, statues. All ruined and gone and a hegemonic cult imposed on people- which curtails free thought, expressions and human liberties. What a terrible state.

In general I feel that eastern religions (Buddhism, Hinduism etc) allowed for far more freedom of expression than Abrahamic religions.

 

[Ionian]

Truly astounding, cheers for the link OP!. Amazing to read and look at.

I wonder if they're going to re-open? I'd eat there.

 

[Tesseract]

f me, was that really 2000 years ago

 

[Dr. Claus]

At risk of sounding a little offensive, its my personal belief that Abrahamic religions in general cause (In Islam's case) or used to cause (in case of all 3) a severe curtailing of art, culture, science and general quality of life. You look at Europe before Christianity and life seems much freer, at least in Roman and Greek cultures. Freedom of thought, great philosophers, multitude of colorful Gods and stories, openness about sexuality, prevalence of scientific thought and so on. Of course there were miseries and wars and what not, but at least thought policing seems to have been much lesser. The same was the case with Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc before arrival of Islam. Mesopotamia, Babylon, great works of art, libraries, statues. All ruined and gone and a hegemonic cult imposed on people- which curtails free thought, expressions and human liberties. What a terrible state.

In general I feel that eastern religions (Buddhism, Hinduism etc) allowed for far more freedom of expression than Abrahamic religions.

I would suggest you read some historical texts. The issue wasn’t religion that causes a downfall of technology, culture, and art after the Roman Empire fell. It was a power vacuum where a number of groups tried to fill causing years of war. Couple this with other issues such as plagues, severe changes in weather (such as the mini ice age during the 14th to 19th centuries), etc.

 

[ManofOne]

OMG

 

[eot]

This one is very well preserved, but if you go to Pompeii you'll see several "kiosks" like this

 

[Imagine Wagons]

The color is incredible. Makes you wonder how all those surviving statues and monuments actually looked like before centuries of weather damage. Coloring such a surface couldn’t have been that cheap back then, yet they did it for a simple food street stall. That yellow is something else, they always teach how the ancients made red and blue in school, but yellow is practically never talked about.

Another amazing thing is the art. How art in the western world regressed during the Middle Ages when people could draw and paint like that in the first century AD defies belief. It’s clear that the Byzantines were the true heirs of Rome in that matter, while medieval drawings from western Europe look like children’s efforts.

Rome was much more advanced than we like to think in retrospective. And yes, everyday life probably was more like today’s than we can imagine, only with less reading, slower news, and much longer travel times.
Mary Beard’s book SPQR has chapters dedicated to lower class people and workers in republican and Augustan Rome. Their problems and their daily lives are surprisingly modern.

Sexually frustrated men are better off reading something like Ars Amatoria by Ovid and staying off of Reddit. Same problems thousands of years later.

 

[Lupingosei]

Architectural design not that different than what we use today. The Romans were so advanced.

They were really close in getting the steam engine, it would have probably changed history, if they would have.

 

[DeepBreath87]

The Romans were awesome.

 

[ValiantTraveler]

The paintings are impressive, I’m surprised the colors survived to this day.

 

[Stouffers]

Futurologists generally say the longer something has been around, the higher the chance is it will stay.

Even in 10000 years, a table will still be a table, and a wheel a wheel.

What about the definition of marriage? It changed in a matter of months after 1000s of years.

 

[Fbh]

Always amazing to see something preserved this well.
Really helps you picture how these places must have looked like back then.

There's a painting of a dog on one of them I wonder if they served dog

The article says they found traces of pork, beef, snails and fish. Maybe the dog painting was more decorative ?

 

[Fugitive Sex]

Double post. Apologies.

 

[Fugitive Sex]

They were really close in getting the steam engine, it would have probably changed history, if they would have.

That was actually the Greeks. Heron of Alexandria, specifically.

 

[King of Foxes]

Man, this is so cool. Especially the fact that the colours are all there. As others have mentioned, Romans, the ancient civilizations in general, used so many colours and it's sad to see that such a small percentage is actually still visible.

 

[Revolutionary]

They ate dogs?

Mt Vesuvius did nothing wrong.

 

[Lupingosei]

That was actually the Greeks. Heron of Alexandria, specifically.

Yes, the Greeks as well, but I mean in an industrial context. What I mean a steam engine used like during the industrialization.

The Greeks also had a navigational clock, but it was kept a secret only to few, pretty much like the steam engine.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Even now, its probably better than Mexican food

amazing photos tho

 

[INC]

Hahaha yes they're are

 

[SirKicksalot]

The dog is probably the owner's first pet (the dog found dead is a small adult).

The dog painting's frame has a graffiti - NICIA CINAEDE CACATOR. It's a pun. It means "Nicias, shameless shitter". That would be the dog. It can be also interpreted as "Nicias, fucking faggot", because "cinaede" is a flexible word which means catamite but basically has the same use as the modern "faggot". That might be the shop owner, but not necessarily - just because the graffiti is there doesn't mean it's directed at that person, same as any graffiti.

 

[MetalAlien]

f me, was that really 2000 years ago

I know seems like yesterday..

 

[DragoonKain]

The skill and talent level,of your average person back then had to be way more than today. 7 billion people on earth today, no idea how many there was back then but I doubt it was even half that. They had all these engineers, artists painters. How many painters in one of your cities could even paint something like that, let alone a small town? Every Roman town had shit like that in it.

I remember in saw on a documentary some ancient jewels and Roman treasures found and one of them was this egg shaped thing with gems on it. No one has figured out how it was made. The design is intricate. They could recreate it, but they haven’t figured out how the romans did it with the tools they had available to them back in their time. That’s how advanced they were, experts today can’t even figure them out in some respects.

 

[008]

Pompeii is amazing. Been there once and just sat on a small staircase in a house alone, thinking thousands of years ago people actually lived in that house and climbed those stairs. Maybe a brother and sister sat, playing games, at that very place where I was sitting.
The well preserved pictures are mind-blowing, like in the article above.

Definitely recommend it too. It’s huge too and very cool.
Looks like they ate dog

 

[Thurible]

This is awesome! It's always cool uncovering new things from cultures long gone. Actually kind of reminds me of modern street vendors.