Graffiti on the walls In Pompell

摘要

Well-off homeowners living in the Roman city of Pompeii more than 2,000 years ago could read the writing on their walls, and apparently didn't mind the spontaneous scrawling. Citizens of Pompeii scratched out graffiti on walls of private residences to share creative greetings, welcomes and salutations to friends, Rebecca Benefiel of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., reported on January 8.