Editing Romulus and Remus (section)

===Historicity===
[[File:Maria Saal Dom Grabrelief Romulus und Remus 27122013 774.jpg|thumb|left|450px|A Roman relief from the [[Maria Saal#Cathedral|Cathedral of Maria Saal]] showing Romulus and Remus with the she-wolf]]
Current scholarship offers little evidence to support any particular version of the Roman foundation myth, including a historical Romulus or Remus.<ref>Rodriguez Mayorgas p.91</ref> Starting with Fabius Pictor, the written accounts must have reflected the commonly-held history of the city to some degree.<ref>Rodriguez Mayorgas p.90</ref> The archaeologist [[Andrea Carandini]] is one of very few modern scholars who accept Romulus and Remus as historical figures, and dates an ancient wall on the north slope of the Palatine Hill to the mid-8th century BC and names it the ''[[Murus Romuli]]''.<ref>See Carandini, ''La nascita di Roma. Dèi, lari, eroi e uomini all'alba di una civiltà'' (Torino: Einaudi, 1997) and Carandini. ''Remo e Romolo. Dai rioni dei Quiriti alla città dei Romani (775/750 – 700/675 a. C. circa)'' (Torino: Einaudi, 2006)</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wiseman |first1=T. P. |author1-link= T. P. Wiseman |title=Reading Carandini |journal=The Journal of Roman Studies |date=2001 |volume=91 |pages=182–193 |doi=10.2307/3184776 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3184776 |access-date= |issn=0075-4358|jstor= 3184776 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>