Who Created Rome

The creation and original people of Rome are explained in this paragraph that I found in the following Web site.

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~dee/ROME/ETRUSCAN.HTM

" Somewhere between 900 and 800 BC, the Italian peninsula was settled by a mysterious peoples called the Etruscans. We don't know where the Etruscans came from, but archaeologists suspect that they came from the eastern Mediterannean, possibly Asia Minor. We will, however, never really know where they came from or why they colonized Italy. We do know that when they came to Italy, they brought civilization and urbanization with them. They founded their civilizations in north-eastern Italy between the Appenine mountain range and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Their civilization stretched from the Arno river in the north to the Tiber river towards the center of the Italian peninsula; it was on the Tiber river that a small village of Latins, the village that would become Rome, sat. So the Romans, who were only villagers during the rise of the Etruscan civilization, were in close contact with the Etruscans, their language, their ideas, their religion, and their civilization; the Etruscans were the single most important influence on Roman culture in its transition to civilization."

pictures of mummies

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These sites have pictures of mummies. The last one is a picture of Pharaoh Ramses II's mummy.

http://mummies.thepolar.net/

http://www.longpassages.org/images/British%20museum%20more%20mummies.jpg

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According to the information found on the website http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~dee/ROME/ETRUSCAN.HTM, the Etruscans are believed to have played a significant role in the creation and development of Rome. The Etruscans settled in the Italian peninsula around 900-800 BC, but their origins are still not fully known. Archaeologists suspect that the Etruscans came from the eastern Mediterranean, possibly from Asia Minor. They brought civilization and urbanization with them to Italy and founded their civilizations in northeastern Italy between the Appenine mountain range and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The village of Latins, which eventually became Rome, was located on the Tiber river in close proximity to the Etruscan civilization. The Etruscans had a major influence on Roman culture, including their language, ideas, religion, and civilization.