Even as far back as the sixth century BCE, Persians were baking flatbreads covered in cheese and dates, pizza toppings that would be at home at a modern artisanal pizza place. But pizza as we know ...

BBC Bitesize grabs a slice of the action. The modern pizza we know today evolved from dishes created in Naples, Italy in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Italians take their pizza very seriously ...

Perhaps your taste for pizza has never taken you beyond your local fast-food chain or a frozen pizza from the supermarket, but there are some people for whom only the most authentic will do.