Detail of the inscription on the stele (courtesy Mugello Valley Project) (click to enlarge) Over the coming months, according to SMU, researchers with the University of Florence will be examining and ...

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 ...

In the silent display cases of the National Archaeological Museum of Florence rests an object that, at first glance, might seem like a modest piece of deformed mineral. However, this small lead disk, ...

America hasn’t had a major Etruscan exhibition since 2009, when Dallas’s Meadows Museum hosted “New Light on the Etruscans.” That changes in May 2026, when San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum ...

The sixth in an occasional series on the books that spurred our love of travel. “I am not Baedeker,” D.H. Lawrence forewarns readers of his travel writing from Italy. Instead of train schedules, ...