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 ...

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 ...

Italian archaeologists have discovered the first-ever intact Etruscan house, complete with furniture, bricks and terracotta tiles identical to the ones still used in Tuscany today. Found at an ...

Italian authorities have recovered precious 3rd century B.C. artifacts from an Etruscan necropolis looted by a couple of bungling tomb raiders in Umbria who stumbled across the haul on their land.