Pompeii was famously destroyed on 24 August in 79 AD - or was it? Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered an inscription they say may show that the history books have been wrong for centuries.

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The newly-uncovered fresco was found on a half-crumbled wall in what was the hallway of a house in Pompeii Archaeologists ... ancestor of the modern dish", Italy's culture ministry said.

"Pompeii" at the National Museum of Australia brings together 90 artifacts and a recreation of Vesuvius's eruption.

Researchers have sequenced DNA from Pompeii ... Italy, CNN quoted. Originally, remains found in certain places were thought ...

At Pompeii, now an archaeological park in which visitors can learn about the victims of the Vesuvius eruption, tourists flock to the attraction - one of Italy's most popular - by the hordes.

FILE - A view of Pompeii, a buried and ruined Roman city near modern Naples in Italy, is seen in 1979. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier, File) POMPEII, Italy (AFP) — The world-famous Pompeii archaeological park ...