[MUSIC] But let us not get ahead of ourselves. At a time when the great civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia, were already building [SOUND] monumental pyramids and ziggurats. The early inhabitants of Rome were simple settlers, living on the hills. There was the Capitoline, the Palatine, the Esquiline hills. And in between, a valley where the nearby Tiber River, would often flood and where hillside streams and springs flowed. That area would later become the Roman Forum. How bad was the Tiber flooding? This is the church facade of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, which has been here in Rome since the 16th century. Wanted are recorded levels, that the Tiber river actually reached in floods, just in the 16th and 17th centuries. The early settlers on the hills of Rome, gradually became a mix of locals and new peoples. Of people burying their dead intact in long chamber tombs in the practice we call inhumation. And those newer arrivals from Central Europe, who were cremating their dead and putting them into little urns or huts, which resembled their simple homes.