Anagni

Anagni is an historical metropolis and comune within the province of Frosinone, Latium, central Italy, inside the hills east-southeast of Rome. It is a historical and artistic middle of the Latin Valley. The first human settlements date returned to greater than 700,000 years, in step with the courting of some Palaeolithic hand-made fragments these days recovered; at the same time as the historic resources mention Anagni most effective once, the metropolis had already been introduced into the Roman orbit.

Several gadgets manufactured from bone and flint stone and additionally human molars and incisors belonging to fossil Homo erectus had been determined in Fontana Ranuccio. The those who lived in the ones locations had been of the Hernici, migrated - as it appears - from the Aniene valley and descendant from the Marsi, at least in step with the ethnical term deriving from the Marsian herna, that is: "Those who stay on the stony hills".

Only two words remain in their language: Samentum, a strip of sacrificial skin, and Bututti, a type of funeral lament. Anagni turned into an crucial town and religious centre of the Hernici. The metropolis became the seat of temples and sanctuaries, in which, inside the 2nd century AD, many linen codices containing sacred Etruscan writings have been still nicely-conserved, according to the testimony of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Of those writings, there is a sole survivor, that is the Liber Linteus.