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The Birth of Rome

Tides of History

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Rome and the Proto-Urban Period

Early Rome was a city of clay walled, thatched roofed huts. A lot of people lived in them and by the middle of the 8th century BC, when Romulus was supposed to have found in Rome, they covered an enormous area. Excavators have uncovered part of the wall, a bastion, a gateway, and an associated hut which they call the Porta Mogonia.

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