A new analysis challenges decades of research that labeled the Etruscan-Roman settlement of Veii, in central Italy, as a “failed city.” Contrary to the traditional narrative of decline, researcher ...
In the hills north of Rome, an unlikely explorer has changed the way archaeologists understand one of the Roman Republic’s earliest rivals. Instead of wheels rolling across Martian dust, they crept ...
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 ...
CORSCIA – French archaeologists have unearthed an Etruscan tomb containing a skeleton and dozens of artifacts in Corsica, a rare discovery that could shed new light on the wealthy civilization of ...
Archeologists have identified one of the largest known sacred buildings of the Etruscans. The temple's strata offer insights into more than 1000 years of development of one of the most important ...
When workers pried a stone slab from a hillside near the town of Barbarano Romano in central Italy, stale air rushed out of a ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Whoever commissioned this statue must have been one of the Etruscan elite. Marble was an expensive material usually reserved for the religious or ...