It’s interesting that the Roman Army copied something from their enemies. Rome adopted their helmets from the Greeks, Rome adopted their shield from neighboring Italians, Rome adopted their mail from the Celts, Rome adopted their Sword and Dagger from the Celtiberians, and Rome adopted their ships from Carthage. The one thing that seems to be a particular Roman invention was their unique Pilum javelin.

The Etruscans are interesting as they were probably, like the Corsicans, Sardinians, Iberians and a few other peoples, the remnants of the First European Farmer Race or pre-Indo-European Race. Even today the Basque people still speak a pre-Indo-European language. The Italic tribes were the Indo-Europeans who penetrated into Italy and the Celts and Celto-Iberians tribes were the Indo-Europeans who penetrated into Gaul and the Iberian peninsula. Interesting that even today the Sardinians have the greatest proportion of Pre-Indo-European DNA, whereas the Baltic peoples have the least Pre-Indo-European DNA which corresponds to the movement of Indo-Europeans from the North East of… Read more »

An interesting thing is that if you except the new Chronology proposal by the Egyptologist David Rohl, the dates of the fall of Troy, the movement of the Sea Peoples and the theoretical date of Aeneas‘ journey from Troy to Latin Italy all line up so that the story of Aeneas could in fact be entirely true.