Archaeologists Find Tomb Under Roman Forum

AP ^ | Jan 20th, 2006 | AP

[Publius]

Read Livy on the subject. There were many tribes including the Etruscans and the Voii.

[mikrofon]

So a funny thing happened on the way to the Forum...

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Etruscans would be my bet. Not that it has a thing to do with this find but in the early 80's I attended a make up Rotary meeting in Volterra, Italy. The restaurant was built into a 2,500 year old Etruscan wall.

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[SunkenCiv]

Probably Etruscans, but we'll have to wait and see.

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[LexBaird]

She's not getting anywhere near my artifact!

S'okay, she isn't after fossils. ;^)

[DoughtyOne]

Relic maybe. Fossil, not yet.

[don-o]

Link don't work.

Is there more information on who is doing this excavation?

[ubermensch88]

Sitting here in Ohio at 10 til Midnight reading H.G. Wells book 1 of the Outline of History...I read ‘ 753 is the date given for the founding of Rome, but there are Etruscan tombs beneath the Roman Forum of a much earlier date than that, and the so called tomb of Romulus bears an indecipherable Etruscan inscription.’ ....... this book was written in 1920 ....and we are just now hearing about this ...Not to mention Etruscan text is not indecipherable.