History

What makes this spot so “enigmatic” is why it was buried. The “black stone” is actually the 1st-century BC marble paving placed over this much older (6th-century BC) shrine. The Romans themselves covered/monumentalized it in the late Republic-likely under Sulla or Julius… https://t.co/uEtFajNB1A

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