[Bernard Marx]

I've done some dilatory research into Etruscan culture, mainly about their amazing goldsmithing techniques like granulation. In the 3 or 4 books I've read it's been accepted fact that they migrated to Etruria from some other place. I'm a little surprised to find that matter questioned so vehemently in this piece.

Of course politics and "scholarship" are often strange bedfellows. I watched a program last night about how Mussolini tried to link his Fascist state to the Roman empire by raising and preserving a couple of Caligula's pleasure boats from Lake Nemi. It reminds me of the "science" involved in "global warming."

[blam]

"I watched a program last night about how Mussolini tried to link his Fascist state to the Roman empire by raising and preserving a couple of Caligula's pleasure boats from Lake Nemi."

Yup, interesting. I'd seen that earlier.