Giraffe meat was on the menu for the last meal of the inhabitants of Pompeii, the night before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the city on August 24, 79 BC, American scientists have found.
According to the results of the report presented by the scientists of the University of Cincinnati, the inhabitants of Pompeii appreciated delicious and exotic dishes such as giraffes and hedgehogs.
A team of archaeologists searched for more than ten years in two districts of Pompeii, where the middle class lived at that time. There were about twenty restaurants in that quarter, in whose kitchens organic remains were found, including giraffe pâté.
Pompeii, near Naples, under the ashes of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, is the best-preserved city of the Roman era. Since 1997, Pompeii has been protected by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage.
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