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 ...

This exhibition draws from artworks at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and explores the origins of Etruscan civilization, contacts with the Phoenicians, Greeks, and contemporary cultures in ancient ...

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During a four-year excavation of an Etruscan well at the ancient Italian settlement of Cetamura del Chianti, a team led by a archaeologist and art historian unearthed artifacts spanning more than 15 ...

ROME, June 19 (UPI) -- Italian archaeologists say the oldest examples yet of Western civilization art have been discovered in an Etruscan tomb near Rome. Scientists say the paintings were found in the ...

“The Mysterious Etruscans: Their Art, Culture and Spirituality” is the topic for the next meeting of the San Diego Museum of Art, North County Chapter, on April 20. Douglas Barker, art historian and ...

"The Etruscan language is a mystery. Yet in Caesar's day it was the everyday language of the bulk of the people in central Italy. … Yet now the language is entirely lost," English writer D. H.