Word: longa
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...theory that Rome was founded by the Etruscans which was brought forward in recent years is entirely untenable, as is shown by the discovery in 1817 of a cemetery, or what must have been the site of Alva Longa. Great jars containing incinerated remains and every description of utensils were unearthed here. The influence of etrusion pottery can be clearly traced. Nowhere was any iron found, so that we may infer that these remains date from the bronze...