The City Of Rome was founded on 21 April on or about the year 753 B.C.E. As for Zarahemla, the fabled lost city of the Nephites from the "Book Of Mormon," no one knows when it was founded -- because it never existed.

https://www.this-is-italy.com/rome-celebrates-2772nd-birthday/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_of_Rome#Date

The ancient Romans were certain of the day Rome was founded: April 21, the day of the festival sacred to Pales, goddess of shepherds, on which date they celebrated the Par ilia (or Palilia). However they did not know, or they were uncertain of, the exact year the city had been founded; this is one reason they preferred to date their years by the presiding consuls rather than using the formula A.U.C. or Ab Urbe Condita. Several dates had been proposed by ancient authorities, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus records these: The Greek historian Timaeus, one of the first to write a history to include the Romans, stated that Rome was founded in the 38th year prior to the first Olympiad, or 814/3 BC; Quintus Fabius Pictor, the first Roman to write the history of his people, in Greek, stated Rome was founded in the first year of the eighth Olympiad, or 748/7 BC; Lucius Cincius Alimentus claimed Rome was founded in the fourth year of the twelfth Olympiad, or 729/8 BC; and Cato the Elder calculated that Rome was founded 432 years after the Trojan War, which Dionysius states was equivalent to the first year of the seventh Olympiad, or 752/1 BC. Dionysius himself provided calculations showing that Rome was founded in 751 BC, starting with the Battle of the Allia, which he dated to the first year of the ninety-eighth Olympiad, 388/7 BC, then added 120 years to reach the date of the first consuls, Junius Brutus and Tarquinius Collatinus, 508/7 BC, then added the combined total of the reigns of the Kings of Rome (244 years) to arrive at his own date, 751 BC. Even the official Fasti Capitolini offers its own date, 752 BC.

The most familiar date given for the foundation of Rome, 753 BC, was derived by the Roman antiquarian Titus Pomponius Atticus, and adopted by Marcus Terentius Varro, having become part of what has come to be known as the Varronian chronology.[14] An anecdote in Plutarch where the astrologer Lucius Tarrutius of Firmum provides an argument based on a non-existent eclipse and other erroneous astronomical details that Rome was founded in 753 BC suggests that this had become the most commonly accepted date. Through its use by the third-century writer Censorinus, whose De Die Natali was the ultimate influence of Joseph Justus Scaliger's work to establish a scientific basis of ancient chronology, it became familiar.

Recent discoveries by Andrea Carandini on Rome's Palatine Hill have also yielded evidence of a series of fortification walls on the north slope that can be dated to the middle of the 8th century BC.[citation needed] According to the legend, Romulus plowed a furrow (sulcus) around the hill in order to mark the boundary of his new city.

Very interesting. I guess the founding of Rome is meant to mean the government of Rome as a nation. Because various tribes of people lived there very shortly after the waters receded from the North Countries. They weren't the powerful nation until much later. But in the beginning there were the Sabines which are very closely related. And of course the Macedonians closer to Greece.

Rome was a city, a city state. Rome was never a nation: it went from being a tribe to a tribal confederation to a multinational empire.

As for "after the waters receded from the North Countries," does that mean you believe in a universal flood?

I was wondering about this also since it makes no sense.



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Actually, the waters encroached on the North countries. At the end of the last ice age, the sea level rose about 300 feet, flooding the land connecting Britain and Ireland to Europe, and making Holland beachfront property.

There was an ice age but it doesn't correlate with a time anywhere near 753 B.C.E. Sounds confused.

who killed his twin brother Remus...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus


The "Book Of Mormon" rips off this famous legend and adds the dark skin curse.

Not to be confused with the intergalactic empire, the Romulans (they came later) or Uncle Remus of Disney's "Song of the South" (he came later, and besides, he wasn't a real person, just a movie character).

All this brings to my mind that we hear so very rarely from "Zarahemlatowndrunk" one of the best user names I've seen on this board.