The first paragraph about the history of graffiti has been torn to pieces. Read all the different bits and put them in the correct order to reconstruct the text.

The first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern graffi- ti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the

1. In the mid-seventies, it was sometimes hard to see out of the subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as « masterpieces »

2. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or 'tags', on buildings all over the city.

3. Later, the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings.

4. The first drawing on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago.

5. Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. ​