The Villanovan culture, the earliest phase of the Etruscan civilization, was the first Iron Age society in Italy.

The Etruscan civilization existed from about 900 B.C. to 27 B.C. in central Italy primarily between the Tiber and Arno rivers, covering parts of present-day Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio. The headline ...

Found beneath an older tomb near Tarquinia, the painted chamber depicts several intricate scenes, including a metallurgical workshop ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient tomb adorned with stunning paintings in Tarquinia, Italy, within a larger Etruscan necropolis. The Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilization that thrived in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Archaeologists in Italy recently uncovered an ancient slab that could unlock mysteries of the Etruscan culture. Here's what scientists are hoping it will tell them.

FLORENCE, ITALY—According to a Live Science report, a 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb decorated with wall paintings has been uncovered in central Italy’s Tarquinia necropolis. No human remains ...

Franco Marzatico, who led the excavation, suggested the still-unknown settlers may have contributed to the rise of the Etruscan civilization that thrived in the Alps later on. "We have the ...

A 2,500-year-old tomb decorated with bright-red wall paintings has been discovered at an ancient necropolis in Italy. It was created by the Etruscans, a people who thrived in Italy during the ...

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The property encompasses the two necropolises of the Banditaccia and the Monterozzi, the most important cemeteries of the ancient Etruscan city-states of Cerveteri and Tarquinia. These two cities were ...

Found in Italy it was probably and Etruscan copy of a Greek original or it may have been an import from Attica (mainland Greece) itself. Either way it shows how Greek civilisation (and therefore ...