Thanks to new advanced techniques using endoscopes and laser scanners, archaeologists have been able to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that, contrary to popular belief, Rome was indeed built in a day.      

    The experts now have irrefutable evidence from the remains of food samples and solidified excreta recovered from a site behind the Palatine Hill, that the workers were actually on the site for just over twenty six hours. However, allowing for meal breaks and the interruptions due to mass floggings, the building work must have been completed in under twenty-four hours.

     Professor Andrea Carupini, head of archaeology at Rome`s La Sapienza University, said the findings were extremely exciting and overthrew established beliefs that Romulus and Remus`s  Rome evolved over many years.

    But the findings have enraged certain members of  Rome`s elite archaeologist society, the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Rome Municipality. It`s chief spokesperson, Irene Brancoti, said to build a city the size of Rome using only the basic building techniques known in 753BC,  in just twenty-four hours, was impossible.   

    But Professor Carupini and his team are standing by their findings.

    `There is ample evidence that a workforce of  as many as twenty thousand men did indeed succeed in building in just one day, what, for the next few centuries, was to become the best known, and most feared city in the world.