Pygmies fighting against crocodiles and hippopotamus depicted in the Nilotic scene in the Roman fresco from the House of the Surgeon (Casa del Chirurgo) in Pompeii (1-79 AD), now on display in the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, Campania, Italy.

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