The Origins of Rome
The Ancients
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The Origins of the Capit Line Temple in Rome
There's been some really interesting recent studies on the capit line temple just to take a single example scholars have suggested that it certainly shows expertise in the construction. It has decoration that looks very like the decoration on contemporary Etruscan temples so it shows an expertise in terra cotta. Rome is emerging as the key site for archaeologists today are excavating in Rome how does they get to these really low layers in a city which is more than a thousand years of ancient history?
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