Antemnae

Antemnae was a very old ancient city in the Italian countryside of Lazio.

The town was about 5.5 kilometers north of Rome at the mouth of the Anio into the Tiber. Antemnae was created by Sicels. From Romulus conquered Antemnae presented with Porsena to Rome. In the Augustan period Antemnae was only a villa. When Pliny the Elder it is listed among the lost cities.

Archaeological evidence since the 8th century BC: walls, temples and cistern from the Late Archaic period, temples and houses of the Republican period and a villa from the late Republic and Empire.

Swell

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