The inhabitants of Pompeii covered the city walls with graffiti.
Why it is true
The inhabitants of Pompeii wrote on the walls political messages, declarations of love, insults and even advertisements. Thousands of these texts were preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
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