Italian authorities have seized an illegal excavation site of an Etruscan necropolis between the Tuscan towns of Chiusi and Città della Pieve. They recovered several objects bound for the black market ...
An ancient bronze lamp held in the collection of the Etruscan Academy Museum (MAEC) is the subject of a new paper published in De Gruyter’s Etruscan and Italic Studies, re-evaluating its iconography.
The exhibition explores the origins of Etruscan civilization with objects drawn from the permanent collection of the Museum. Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy in the Bowdoin Collection opens ...
It is useless to look in Etruscan things for “uplift.” If yon want uplift, go to the Greek and the Gothic. If you want mass, go to the Roman. But if you love the odd spontaneous forms . . . go to the ...
In the rich Etruscan country north of Rome, archaeologists and grave robbers bitterly compete in the search for ancient tombs. But sometimes the grave robber unwittingly becomes the archaeologist’s ...
Over the summer, in the foothills of the tiny Tuscan hilltop town of San Casciano dei Bagni, a group of archaeologists gathered by the ruins of an ancient thermal bath and began to dig. For months ...