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Rome 100 Years Older Than Thought

New archeological evidence.

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Next week, Rome will celebrate its 2,767th birthday, but it turns out the city is actually a century older than that. According to traditional belief, Rome was founded by brothers Romulus and Remus on April 21, 753 BC. However, on Sunday archaeologist Patrizia Fortini announced that a wall from an infrastructure used to channel water from under the Capitoline Hill could be dated back 100 years before Romulus and Remus. After finding ceramic pieces near the wall, archaeologists used the shards to "fix the wall chronologically between the 9th century and the beginning of the 8th century," said Fortini.

Read it at The Guardian

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