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This may be what I remember, and have just scrambled some of the details, including which thread this post is in reply to (':

The Etruscans
by Michael Grant
Clusium's sixth-century King Lars Porsenna was regarded as the most powerful Etruscan of all time. His grandeur was illustrated by traditions of his enormous tomb beside the city. Varro, the Roman antiquarian of the first century BC, has left us what purports to be an account of the monument. He described it as a stone construction three hundred feet square, towerring above a fifty-foot-high pedestal containing a tangled labyrinth of chambers. On the pedestal, he added, stood five pyramids, four at the corners and one at the centre, each seventy-five feet broad at the base and a hundred and fifty feet high; they supported a bronze disk which formed the base of a conical cupola hung with bells fastened with chains. Around the cupola were five further pyramids, and these in their turn supported another platform above which four additional pyramids towered... Pliny... who quoted the passage, rightly dismissed much of its contents... Lars Porsenna was buried in a mighty tomb... although it still remains to be discovered. [pp 205-206]

this is the same ISBN/edition I have here, from over 20 years ago.

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The Etruscans by Werner Keller is another good source. He talks about how Roma was founded and gained much of their technology from the Etruscans. But only kept what they felt was needed and forgot the rest. I like going over today maps and looking for today cities that replaced or still carry a resemblance of the original names. Most of the Roman/Greek names in Africa and Middle East have been renamed by the Mohammedans.

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