[SunkenCiv]

Subtitle: As Italian capital approaches 2,767th birthday, excavation reveals wall built long before official founding year of 753BC. [The standirst on this article was amended on 13 April to reflect the correct date of Rome's founding]

Rome may be older than its official birthday of 21 April 753BC when founded by Romulus and Remus. Photograph: WestEnd61/Rex

[Tainan]

The deeper they dig...the older it gets. There is a lot of really old stuff in the ground.

Rome is old.

[glock rocks]

Archaeologists' findings may prove Rome a century older than thought

... and thought is pretty old!

[Verginius Rufus]

21 April 753 B.C. is also the date when Romulus supposedly killed his brother Remus. Rome was named for a fratricide and Romulus was later regarded as a god, Quirinus. Fitting start for a bloodthirsty nation that never seemed to get tired of killing people. Caesar's conquest of Gaul may have cost 1 million lives--of Gauls.

As an enemy of Rome says in Tacitus' Agricola, "They create a desert and call it peace."

That people were living on the site of Rome doesn't mean that they were Romans--the name may have been bestowed on the site later.

[wildbill]

File under “Angels Dancing on the Head of a Pin” section of GGG.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

You realize the city could have been named REME.

http://awesomebmovies.com/2011/04/duel-of-the-titans-1961/

[Free Vulcan]

A century here, a century there, pretty soon you are talking about real time.

[GreenHornet]

Archaeologists' findings may prove Rome a century older than thought

Well, we know it wasn't built in a day.

[Ezekiel]

Archaeologists' findings may prove Rome a century older than thought

Rome wasn't built in a day. Now it turns out that it may have taken an extra century.

Look for the union label.