Archaeologiests Find Tomb Under Roman Forum

ROME - Archaeologists digging beneath the Roman Forum have discovered a 3,000-year-old tomb that pre-dates the birth of ancient Rome by several hundred years.

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State TV quoted experts as saying the tomb appeared to date to about 1,000 B.C., meaning the people who constructed the necropolis pre-dated the ancient Romans by hundreds of years.

Legend has it that Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of the god of war, Mars.

Maybe we ought to switch from Varro's dating of Rome to Ennius' implicated date of Rome instead. Very interesting nonetheless! Rome keeps on getting older and older with every new find.