Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a painting which depicts what might be the precursor to the Italian pizza ... also found near the oven in the working areas ...

While the domed oven had been in use already among the Ancient Egyptians and Greeks, it was the Romans who turned it into ...

[Avidan] was sure that hotter and faster would be better, so he aimed for a 45-second pizza. The talk gets into the specifics of building a rocket stove, and a Pompeii oven on top of that.

Even the ancient Romans liked their pizza. Archaeologists in Pompeii said on Tuesday they ... "In the working areas near the oven, the skeletons of three victims have been found in the past ...