Before the Roman Empire, there were the Etruscans. This ancient civilization dominated the area known today as Tuscany in the 6th and 7th centuries B.C., building a robust agriculture and trading ...

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 ...

FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - A rare inscription found on a stone unearthed near Florence is exciting archaeologists who say it may help reveal the secrets of the Etruscans, one of Italy's earliest and ...

When Rome was little more than a cluster of hill villages and the Forum a swampy marketplace, the proud and pleasure-loving Etruscans ruled Italy from the Tiber to the Po. In the end, the Roman ...

Archaeologists excavating a necropolis in Italy have uncovered a spectacular urn, which dates back thousands of years and contains unexpected artifacts, reported Archaeology Magazine. Urn Had a ...