Explore the remarkable Etruscan tomb discovery revealing secrets of a warrior prince and ancient rituals in Tarquinia. Since their puzzling, non-Indo-European language was virtually extinguished (they ...
A sealed Etruscan tomb dating back 2,600 years has been uncovered in Umbria, Italy, revealing more than 100 remarkably preserved artifacts. The discovery, described by archaeologists as a ...
The 6th century BCE sandstone slab weighs about 500 pounds and is almost four feet tall and two feet wide. There appears to be a lengthy text inscribed on it. Most Etruscan discoveries have been grave ...
Aerial view of the necropolis of Sasso Pinzuto. Credit: TAP (Tuscania Archaeological Project) The Etruscan necropolis of Sasso Pinzuto, located near Tuscania in the Italian region of Lazio, has been ...
A new imaging technique has allowed scientists to uncover a once-hidden figure in a 2,500-year-old tomb painting in Italy that was built by the ancient Etruscan, which flourished in Central Italy ...
This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C. combines well-known aspects ...
D.H. LAWRENCE was fascinated by the Etruscans. The English writer referred to the “lost” ways of the ancient Italian civilisation in his letters; in poems he imagined the people as “long-nosed, ...