You might think that graffiti is a relatively new urban movement – but the act actually dates back thousands of years. Messages such as ‘Staphylus was here’, ‘Phileros is a eunuch!’ and ‘I screwed the barmaid’ were written on walls in the Italian city of Pompeii and preserved when it was buried by volcanic ash. The word ‘grafitti’ comes from the Italian ‘graffiato’, meaning scratched.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:05:21 +0000
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