Ancient Rome's she-wolf statue not so ancient?

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Ancient Rome's she-wolf statue not so ancient? - 7/13/2008 11:37:29 AM

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ROME � She suckled Rome's legendary twin founders and fed Benito Mussolini's ambitious dreams of renewed imperial glories.

For centuries, the she-wolf has been one of Rome's most powerful symbols. But now some experts are contending that the bronze statue in a city museum atop Capitoline Hill might not be so old after all.

New theories suggest that the statue dates from the Middle Ages, and not from Etruscan times, as has long been held.

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