Researchers present comprehensive ancient DNA data retrieved from peoples culturally affiliated with the iconic Etruscans ... populations on the genetic map of western Eurasia," says Cosimo ...

Early Etruscans had advanced knowledge of art, farming and metallurgy, leading some historians to believe the civilization originated elsewhere before settling in what is now Italy. DNA analysis ...

A new genetic analysis may have finally revealed the origin of the Etruscans — a mysterious people whose civilization thrived in Italy centuries before the founding of Rome. It turns out the ...

The Etruscans lived in what is now Italy from about 800 BCE to the first century BCE when they were assimilated into the Roman Empire. Their language is now gone, but some of their culture has ...

Jacopo Tabolli, who coordinated the dig for the University for Foreigners in Siena, said the discovery was significant because it sheds new light on the end of the Etruscan civilization and the ...