2021-01-16 13:35:48 GMT2021-01-16 21:35:48(Beijing Time) Xinhua English ROME, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Recent high water levels on the River Tiber that runs through the heart of Rome reminded locals of a long history of flooding in the city -- often with disastrous consequences. But experts say a series of precautions make it unlikely that Italy's capital will ever again see the enormous floods that had plagued the city over the centuries. The River Tiber is an integral part of Rome's history: legend has it that the city's founders, infant twins Romulus and Remus, were found in a box on the riverbank in the 8th century B.C., for example. Access to the city via the river was a key factor in the city's early economic and military growth.