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Show Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 42 Sunday, October 2, 1988 Ancient wall hints at Rome's past - ROME (AP) Archaeologists have dug up a wall in the heart of the Roman Forum that could help them discover the secrets of the founding of Rome. The city could be older than it thinks it is. 'The archaeologists say the dicovery also could find some truth in the legend of Romulus and Remus. According to the legend, Romulus established Rome by building a defensive wall around the Palatine Hill, the site where he and his twin brother, Remus, were suckled in their infancy by a lf and reared by a shepherd. she-wo- Romulus then founded Rome in 753 B.C., as the legend goes. While the archaeologists don't believe they'll find any proof of Romulus, Remus, the and the shepherd, they do think they might find some truth in the legend about the way Rome was founded and when. she-wo- lf Andrea Carandini, a University of Pisa professor who is leading the dig, said archaeologists in May uncovered a stone wall on a slope of the hill just at the spot described by the ancient Roman historian Tacitus as the site of the wall that first defined and protected Rome. said Richard Brilliant, a professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University in New York, who visited the site in May. "Whether or not conclusions can be drawn about the wall in the development of the city is of the city," "We will never discover the wall of Romulus because Romulus is a legend ... but I think the nucleus of the legend is right, and in a way, we already proved this." Andrea Carandini Experts have dated the find to the 7th century B.C., but Carandini said in an interview, he suspects underneath it is an earlier version of a defensive wall that could have been built a century earlier. Archaeologists say reaching the wall could be the first tangible piece of evidence to back up the story of Rome's legendary founding in 753 B.C. But secrets of the earliest days of Roman civilization may stay locked in the ground if the government fund that has financed the dig for the last three years is not replen- ished. Carandini says the team needs the equivalent of about $400,000 to continue. For now Carandini keeps digging. "We will never discover the wall of Romulus because Ro something much more this pastoral Alpine playground to contemplate the state of civilization. This year again, some 1,500 creative people who influence the way much of the world buys products, wears clothes, reads books, drives cars, eats, sleeps and works came to ponder and discuss. 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"This could be very important because it may be proof that before the Etruscans conquered Rome, Rome already was a very big center," Guidi said. The defensive wall, discovered about 10 feet below a grassy surface, probably surrounded a "pomoerium," or holy place, in the city that had been founded with the gods' blessings, Carandini said. Above the excavated wall, archaeologist found remnants of houses they believe date back to the end of the 6th century B.C. and belonged to aristocrats of Etruscan origins. June had a more "idealistic slant." immune re- strate." mulus is a legend, of course," he said. "But I think the nucleus of the legend is right, and in a way, we already proved this because nobody believed that there really was a fortification of the Palatine Hill." The base of the hill eventually developed into the Forum, ancient Rome's market and meeting place, now a major tourist attraction. 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