Posted on 04/03/2007 9:27:29 PM PDT by neverdem
European Pressphoto Agency
The ancient Etruscans may have migrated to Italy from the Near East, bringing sophisticated art, like the terra cotta statue of Apollo of Velo.
There's another pic from Corbis(verboten) on the regular webpage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/science/03etruscan.html?ref=science
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Interesting article
Superbug Strain Claims First Life In Japan
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remarkable... the Lemnian Stele must be unheard of among these supposed scholars... the Ionian trade links and deity names... even the medusa head coins...
On The Origin Of The Etruscan Civilisation
New Scientist | 2-14-2007 | Michael Day
Posted on 02/14/2007 11:39:18 AM EST by blam
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I wish I had a dollar for every time current discoveries support Herodotus. Truly the father of history.
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I guess these archaeologists being discussed in the article have never heard of a people — say, hypothetically, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes of the 5th century AD — up and leaving their homeland by boat and settling in an entirely different land, and producing a significantly different hybrid culture. :’)
Unique book goes on displayThe world's oldest multiple-page book - in the lost Etruscan language - has gone on display in Bulgaria's National History Museum in Sofia. It contains six bound sheets of 24 carat gold, with illustrations of a horse-rider, a mermaid, a harp and soldiers. The small manuscript, which is more than two-and-a-half millennia old, was discovered 60 years ago in a tomb uncovered during digging for a canal along the Strouma river in south-western Bulgaria... There are around 30 similar pages known in the world, Ms Penkova said, "but they are not linked together in a book".
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Monday, 26 May, 2003
Where does the article get 510 BC as the founding of the ‘Roman Republic’?
The founding of Rome has always been dated as 753 BC.
The society started off as a kingdom, then became a republic, then an empire.
Yes, the last King was driven out of Rome around 510 BC. Athen also established the first democracy a few years later.
He added that Etruscan women are also expert drinkers and are very good looking.
Etruscan Gone Wild ....
Now where did I park the time machine???
I always thought Victir Mature looked like an Etruscan http://ia.ec.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/62/55/22m.jpg
“Where does the article get 510 BC as the founding of the Roman Republic?”
Uhhh, because that’s when the republican period began?
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I believe this study.
But travel by the Anglo-Saxons to England from Northern Germany is a much shorter route than the Etruscans would have to have taken. Also, the Anglo-Saxons themselves may have initially had some familiarity with the area by having been deliberately settled there as allied forces by the Romans.
I think perhaps the Etruscan ancestors were members of the Sea-Peoples who raided the Egyptian delta.
He was Polish.
Sounds like they did not follow strict muslim requirements for burkhas and segregation by gender.
There is a well-established Rabbinic tradition that Rome emerged partially from Edom, a sister nation to Israel that inhabited portions of present-day Israel and Jordan. I've always thought the tradition quite improbable, even fanciful, and probably deriving from Rome's decision to put an Edomite (Herod) on the throne of Judea. This study, I suppose, gives the Rabbis at least a drop of credibility -- although given that Etruscan isn't Semetic either, just a drop.
There was a severe cooling event in 1159BC that was recorded in the tree-rings worldwide. Cooling events of this nature (volcano/asteroid impact) are usually associated with drought conditions in many areas.
Also, this was the period of the David plague, Troy collapsed and the Shang Dynasty in China collapsed. A lot was happening worldwide at this time. Conditions were so severe that it is recorded in Chinese writings that '250,000 took to the sea'.
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