[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: Danilo Pivato]

[lbryce]

Thanks, SunkenCiv!
Lbryce

[Verginius Rufus]

Santa Severa is about 31 miles from Rome and was known as Pyrgi in ancient times. It was the port of the Etruscan city of Caere. In 1964 three gold tablets were discovered there—two inscribed with Etruscan texts and one in Phoenician. This discovery was useful in the effort to understand ancient Etruscan, although not as big a breakthrough as the Rosetta Stone was for Egyptian hieroglyphics and demotic.