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 ...

A rare untouched tomb from the Etruscans, a civilization that predated the Roman Republic, has been discovered in central Italy. The tomb, carved from stone in the shape of a small house, contains the ...

Imagine stepping into a 2,500-year-old tomb—without ever leaving your sofa. Using advanced digital technology, Swedish researchers have documented and visualized nearly 280 Etruscan chamber tombs in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A team of archaeologists scouring central Italy uncovered a fully intact Etruscan chamber tomb. The sealed chamber is likely around 2,600 years old ...

ROME, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Italian authorities have recovered precious 3rd century B.C. artefacts from an Etruscan necropolis looted by a couple of bungling tomb raiders in Umbria who stumbled across ...

In the scrubby, rolling country northwest of Rome lies rich archaeological pay dirt, but the worthwhile pockets are as hard to hit as producing oil wells. Some of the underground tombs left by the ...

Not too far from Rome sits the rock necropolis of San Giuliano, a site promising a unique glimpse into the ancient culture that dominated Italy before the Romans. But accessing the site hasn’t always ...

Venice is hardly the most logical location for a show on the Etruscans, a people who flourished in central Italy before the Romans. The majority of Etruscan tombs are much closer to Rome, in the ...