Central Italy has dozens of cyclopean walls, many encircling ancient towns and villages. Scholars debate their true age and origins 🤔
No-city cyclopean walls predate Roman arrival in Italy
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📍 Central Italy
Key facts
- Central Italy has dozens of abandoned cyclopean walls with no associated buildings or settlements
- No datable wood or organic materials remain at these sites
- No burial grounds found at wall sites
- Romans did not live at or write about these locations
- Walls were already abandoned when Romans arrived in 4th century BC
- Walls are older than the mainstream 5th century BC dating suggests, but true age remains unknown
Sources
Alba Fucens - The Ancient Connectiontheancientconnection.com
Scholars and archaeologists have suggested that the walls at Alba Fucens could have been the work of the Pelasgi, a legendary people believed to have lived in ...
Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (Of Giants From ...richardcassaro.com
These ancient Cyclopean ruins are not in Italy, but in neighboring Greece (Tiryns). “Ages before the Romans existed, the fair land of Italy was ...
The Cyclopean Cities of Ancient Latium - Uncharted Ruinsunchartedruins.blogspot.com
Massive cyclopean walls encircle towns and villages, their stones darkened by the passing of centuries and millennia. One can never get used to them.
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