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Finds Support Livy's Tale That Hannibal Passed Through City


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The Roman past of Lucca has been revealed by a striking new discovery in the heart of the Tuscan walled city . Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a Roman presence long before the traditonal date of Roman settlement in 180 BCE - corroborating Roman historian Livy's account of the great Carthaginian general Hannibal passing through Lucca in 217 BCE .

 

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