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 ...

What we know about the Etruscan civilization, we learned from art found in its tombs. Centuries before Rome, a mysterious Etruscan civilization ruled northern Italy. What we know about it we learned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent excavations in the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci revealed the head of a marble statue that appears to have Greek influence. The head belongs to a kore, statues made in the images of young ...