Detail of the inscription on the stele (courtesy Mugello Valley Project) (click to enlarge) Over the coming months, according to SMU, researchers with the University of Florence will be examining and ...

How did the Etruscans, powerful neighbors of Rome, disappear from history? Were they destroyed, or culturally absorbed?

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 ...

A newly unearthed stone slab from Tuscany bears a rare Etruscan religious text that may reveal how early members of this theocratic society worshipped. And it's written in a language that went out of ...

The Etruscan civilization, which flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy, has intrigued scholars for millennia. With remarkable metallurgical skills and a now-extinct, non-Indo-European ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ancient tablet recently unearthed in Tuscany has revealed its first secret: the engraved name ...

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered what may be a rare Etruscan sacred text likely to yield rich details about Etruscan worship and early beliefs of a lost culture fundamental to western ...

An ancient tablet recently unearthed in Tuscany has revealed its first secret: the engraved name of a goddess linked to fertility. The 500-pound (227 kilograms) stone slab, or stele, was unearthed ...