The Etruscan custom of writing on linen has left little for scholars to pick over. We have no Etruscan histories, philosophies, or epics and so—ignoring the often-disparaging commentaries produced by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent excavations in the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci revealed the head of a marble statue that appears to have Greek influence ...

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 ...

Tumulus tomb, Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia, Cerveteri (Unesco World Heritage List, 2004), Lazio, Italy. Etruscan civilisation. “In my work, there’s only one enemy: time,” says art crime expert ...

Etruria: the land and its settlement -- Prehistory: the Villanovans -- The beginning of history: the orientalizing period -- A summary of Etruscan history from Tarquin the First to Augustus -- The art ...