7 Pieces Of Funny Graffiti Found In Ancient Pompeii That Will Crack You Up

The ancient Romans had some wicked humor.

Peter Burns
Lessons from History
4 min readFeb 8

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Photo by Andy Holmes on Unsplash

“Gaius Pumidius Diphilus was here.”

This simple scribble is the oldest graffiti found in Pompeii. It was dated to 78 BC.

Pompeii was an ancient Roman city, situated under a mighty smoking mountain. Vesuvius. At the…

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Peter Burns
Lessons from History

A curious polymath who wants to know how everything works. Blog: Renaissance Man Journal (http://gainweightjournal.com/).