even food of people and people themselves turned into rock (somewhere near italy - forgot the name of the town)
That was the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. They were buried by Hot ash from an Eruption of Mt Vesuvius i AD 79. The ash hardened However it left excellent casts of all the organic material, including humans. Over the centuries the casts filled in with silt which hardened into stone, in the shape of the objects the volcano had buried. Some of the teeth and bones did not decat and remained a part of the castings which later became visible as the ash washed away.
What is amasing is both cities were believed to have been mythological until these casting were discovered. I believe it was sometime in the 1700's that they were found.
Many films have been made about them. A google search of either name will show many references.