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To: SunkenCiv

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.


5 posted on 06/21/2013 10:04:26 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Thanks VR.


6 posted on 06/21/2013 9:42:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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