History of the city

The origins of Numana the “vetustissima” are quite disputed: even if the majority of the authors says that Numana was set up by Sabines…, the famous sentence by Plinio Secondo Varese (Plinio Il Vecchio) “…In Cluana, Potentia, Numana a Siculis conditae…” brings back up to a Sicilian foundation. However, whatever its origin, this village grow and developed and in the VI and V century B.C. Numana not only became an important trade centre for Greece but also one of the most populated villages in the Picene world. Many remains are today collected in the Ancona and Numana museums and they testify how Numana was big. Nevertheless, we don’t have to forget that men have been populating these places since the upper Paleolithic (100.000 years ago), so peoples who came later found already some settlements. Werent’t thus Picenes/Sabines who founded Numana? And Sicilians?