The period was marked by wars and conflicts across what is today’s Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio regions, and yet, the bronze statues show evidence that Etruscan and Roman families prayed together ...

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a rare 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb that somehow escaped looters over the centuries.

The statues date from the second century B.C. and and the first century A.D., a time when Etruscans were being assimilated into Roman society, following centuries of prolonged territorial warfare.

The Etruscans lived and thrived for 500 years in what today is central Italy — the regions of Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio — before the establishment of the Roman Republic in 509 BCE, after the ...

The finding highlights the transition from Etruscan rule to the Roman Empire, which happened between the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. While the end of the Etruscan civilization and beginning of ...

The period was marked by wars and conflicts across what is today’s Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio regions, and yet the bronze statues show evidence that Etruscan and Roman families prayed together to ...