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Rusellae

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Etruscan-Roman city in Tuscany, near Grosseto, with one of Italy's longest surviving cyclopean walls (~3 km perimeter). Polygonal masonry with bent-corner joinery comparable to Vetulonia and Cosa. Multiple construction phases visible. Conventional dating: 7th c. BCE Etruscan, Roman expansion in 3rd c. BCE. Independent reading: the cyclopean phase predates the Etruscan attribution and aligns with the broader Mediterranean polygonal masonry tradition that Hugh Newman documents from Türkiye through Greece and Italy.

42.8167°, 11.1333°

Look Closer — this site carries open questions: polygonal, interlocking masonry; stones heavier than the period's tools could lift; geometry beyond period explanation.
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