According to University of Cincinnati archaeologists digging in the famed Roman city, the poor and mid-level Pompeians ate grains, fruits, nuts, olives, local fish and chicken eggs as well as exotic giraffe and flamingo meat, imported spices, some from as far away as Indonesia. Portrait of the baker Terentius Neo with his wife found on the wall of a Pompeii house. The scientists have spent more than a decade at two city blocks within a non-elite district...
