Livy
Rome, sacred ground for nearly 3,000 years, and counting
According to legend, Rome was born April 21, 753 BC, when Romulus, the survivor of its feuding twin founders, hitched his plow and furrowed a circular perimeter in the hills above the Tiber River. Everything inside was urbs, city space consecrated by priests who interpreted the will of the gods; everything outside was ager - unhallowed open territory.
Discovery of 'Lost City' in Albania Thrills Archaeologists
Local inhabitants thought it was just a small, grassy hill.
However, a joint team of Polish and Albanian archaeologists now think they may have discovered the lost city of Bassania, which the Roman writer Livy described as the site of a battle between the Romans and the last king of Illyria.