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Detailed explanation-1: -Pompeii was destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which is near present-day Naples. Much of the ancient city still lies unexcavated. The site is one of Italy’s most popular tourist attractions. Human remains were also discovered in the excavation of the eatery.

Detailed explanation-2: -Archaeological excavation is the procedure by which archaeologists define, retrieve, and record cultural and biological remains found in the ground. Past activities leave traces in the form of house foundations, graves, artifacts, bones, seeds, and numerous other traces indicative of human experience.

Detailed explanation-3: -The thermopolium, or fast food restaurant, of Regio V in Pompeii. Photo courtesy of Archaeological Park of Pompeii. Archaeologists studying the Roman city of Pompeii recently discovered a thermopolium-a kind of ancient fast food restaurant-and it is now open to the public.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thermopolia are forerunners of today’s restaurants and the items served in them are sometimes compared to modern fast food. These places were mainly used by those who did not have their own kitchens, often inhabitants of insulae, and this sometimes led to thermopolia being scorned by the upper class.

Detailed explanation-5: -Findings revealed foods that would have been inexpensive and widely available, were things such as grains, fruits, nuts, olives, lentils, local fish and chicken eggs, as well as minimal cuts of more expensive meat and salted fish from Spain.