Re: Who was the first king of Rome? Romulus?

Agamemnon wrote;

Romulus built Rome.

Poetic Justice wrote;

What exactly did he build?
Any archaeological evidence?
('Wall of Romulus' is 7C)
Whatever the Iron Age Tribal leader's
name was who was living on the Palatine
Hill in 753BC it couldn't have been too
impressive. Because this 1st Roman King
of yours would have been living in 'wattle
and daub' walled hut with a thatched reed
roof.

Agamemnon wrote;

First? There were kings before Romulus.
No, there was a community/tribe of ragtag illiterate shepherds living
in twig & mud huts with reed roofs.

If you want to call their tribal leaders Kings be my guest but giving
these shepherd leaders 6 centuries of mythical and/or royal lineage is
totally insane.

The only proof of your Kingdom are some postholes and hut water
drainage channels cut into the bedrock, a few burials and some artefacts
on the Palatine Hill.

Clearly you don't have a clue about the
history of Rome.

I guess not, for me reality and sanity tend to get in my way.

"Model of the hut village on the Palatine,
Rome, 8th - 7th centuries BC, based on
excavation results".
www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/roma
civimages2/rhutvillage.jpg ~Walter

Codswallop.
Read Herodotus. These are exactly the
kind buildings that Herodotus describes
that then kings in the region including
Illyria and Macedonia lived in at this exact
time in history.

Did the kings of Illyria and Macedonia build anything else besides
'huts'?

Which brings me back to my original question about your claim that
"Romulus built Rome".

So "What exactly did he build"?

Or for that matter what was built by the 600yrs of Kings that preceded
him?
Any *archaeological* evidence that they existed at all?
600yrs in one location, the archaeologists must be tripping over all
the evidence!
~Walter

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