This comprehensively illustrated study fills the need for an accessible English guide to new discoveries in the archaeology of Rome.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century; most recently with the discovery of the shrine of Aeneas at Laviniu

An original and unprecedented analysis of urbanization and state formation in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era.

Drawing heavily on archaeological evidence, this account of Rome's earliest history traces events from the Late Bronze Age. The entire development of the Roman