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 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 ...

In the rich Etruscan country north of Rome, archaeologists and grave robbers bitterly compete in the search for ancient tombs. But sometimes the grave robber unwittingly becomes the archaeologist’s ...

It is useless to look in Etruscan things for “uplift.” If yon want uplift, go to the Greek and the Gothic. If you want mass, go to the Roman. But if you love the odd spontaneous forms . . . go to the ...

An ancient bronze lamp held in the collection of the Etruscan Academy Museum (MAEC) is the subject of a new paper published in De Gruyter’s Etruscan and Italic Studies, re-evaluating its iconography.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent excavations in the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci revealed the head of a marble statue that appears to have Greek influence ...

Firstly, very few similar objects ("comparanda") have been discovered in Etruscan or Ancient Greek art, making it difficult to draw insightful comparisons. Secondly, the lamp lacks context, having ...

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Tumulus tomb, Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia, Cerveteri (Unesco World Heritage List, 2004), Lazio, Italy. Etruscan civilisation. “In my work, there’s only one enemy: time,” says art crime expert ...