Ancient Greeks created the true ancestor of pizza 7,000 years ago, creating a flatbread called plakous (or plakuntos) topped with oil, herbs, garlic, and cheese, a concept later adopted by Roman settlers in Naples. While Naples modernized the dish with tomatoes in the 18th century, the foundational “pizza-like” bread was established by Greek settlers in Magna Graecia long before.
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