Before Rome ruled the Mediterranean world, before the Senate debated in marble halls, before legions marched across three continents — there was another civilization quietly building the foundations ...

Italy on Tuesday put on display one of the best known examples of Etruscan painting, panels from a tomb that it acquired for 15 million euros ($17 million) in the Culture Ministry's buying spree of ...

ROME, June 30 (Reuters) - One of the most important surviving pieces of ancient Etruscan artwork went on permanent display at Rome's National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia on Tuesday, after the ...

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 ...

Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more than 2,500 years ago. Now, it is possible to do so from a computer, even a ...

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 ...