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by ginnungagap 1543 days ago
There is no cover-up going on here, it's just that we know very little about preroman and especially preetruscan populations of Italy.

There is a wikipedia page[1] concerning megalithic architecture in Lazio (the region of Italy in which Rome is), which unfortunately is only available in Italian but contains some information about the estimated age of most of the structures from the linked submission, as well as attempted explanations. For example archeologists suppose that some of the most advanced walls where built by local populations helped by wandering Greek builders based on similarities with the temple of Delphi and Greek acropolises. Wikipedia also has individual pages for some of the ruins[2][3] (also not available in English) where other theories are suggested, for example the acropolis of Alatri could have been built by the Hernici[4].

[1] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architettura_megalitica_del_...

[2] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropoli_di_Arpino

[3] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropoli_di_Alatri

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernici