The exhibition explores the origins of Etruscan civilization with objects drawn from the permanent collection of the Museum. Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy in the Bowdoin Collection opens ...

During a four-year excavation of an Etruscan well at the ancient Italian settlement of Cetamura del Chianti, a team led by a archaeologist and art historian unearthed artifacts spanning more than 15 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare text from an ancient temple in Italy that could reveal new details about the Etruscan civilization. The text is inscribed on a large sandstone slab from the 6th ...

This exhibition draws from artworks at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and explores the origins of Etruscan civilization, contacts with the Phoenicians, Greeks, and contemporary cultures in ancient ...

This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C. combines well-known aspects ...

Italian authorities have seized an illegal excavation site of an Etruscan necropolis between the Tuscan towns of Chiusi and Città della Pieve. They recovered several objects bound for the black market ...

"The Etruscan language is a mystery. Yet in Caesar's day it was the everyday language of the bulk of the people in central Italy. … Yet now the language is entirely lost," English writer D. H.