It couldn't more obviously be a slide carousel...
Posted on 12/05/2015 10:33:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
An intact Etruscan tomb, complete with sarcophagi, a full array of grave goods and a mysterious marble head, has has been brought to light in the Umbria region of Italy, in what promises to be one of the most important archaeological findings in recent history. Dated to the end of the 4th century B.C., the burial site was found by a farmer who opened a void in the earth while working with his plow in a field near Citta della Pieve, a small town some 30 miles southwest of Perugia... Dated to the end of the 4th century B.C., the burial site was found by a farmer who opened a void in the earth while working with his plow in a field near Citta della Pieve, a small town some 30 miles southwest of Perugia... The Etruscans were a fun- loving and eclectic people who among other things taught the French how to make wine, the Romans how to build roads, and introduced the art of writing into Europe. They began to flourish around 900 B.C., and dominated much of Italy for five centuries. Known for their art, agriculture, fine metalworking and commerce, they began to decline during the fifth century B.C., as the Romans grew in power. By 300-100 B.C., they eventually became absorbed into the Roman empire... Natalini and her team expect to find more information in the inscription, such as the deceased's family name, the name of his parents, and possibly his age at death. The other sarcophagus, covered with painted plaster, also shows an inscription.
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It couldn't more obviously be a slide carousel...
Could be.
Did you, perchance, get that very fruitcake last year?
Who did you send it to this year?
The Etruscans were Turks.
Do you mean they were from Asia Minor? Turkic peoples came from farther north and east. They didn't take over Asia Minor until long after the Etruscans.
>>The Etruscans were Turks.
The Etruscans were Vikings. Yah, I know, goofy, until you read Felice Vinci’s - “The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Poems”. It’s on Amazon.
First tune was “Michigan Rag”. ;’)
Wow! I’d love to find something like that while plowing my field!
LOL
Magnificent work.
During my high school years, during a study hall period (I generally spent those in the library when I could) I first heard of 'em, some coffee-table book with longish, well-illustrated (probably Nat Geog) chapters devoted to individually little-known ancient folks. There was a chapter entitled "The X-Group Enigma" regarding an upper Nile discovery that was in the recent past at that time, but the one relevant to this rambling reply was called "The Etruscans: An Historic People Who Left No History". There used to be literally millions of intact grave goods and other artifacts. One of Napoleon relatives (I think it was, may have been Nappy III) got the license (what luck, eh?)to excavate some rather extensive mounds in Italy, and the haul was so large (it wasn't archaeology in the modern sense) that he thought it would destroy the market for the jugs and such. So, 90 percent of them were just summarily smashed to bits.
Well.
Okay.
As an undergrad, in college, in Boston, freshman year Western Civ was a requirement. Our prof was a Sister of Notre Dame who was a firecracker of a teacher. She took us on a field trip to the MFA .... and at that time, this magnificent tiny singular artifact was housed in a square, pillar like display case.
She gathered us all, asked us to surround it, and she started talking about the Etruscans and their devotion to gods, blah...blah....and without warning, took her elbow and banged the case ....the little chariot swung on its hook and she exclaimed *LOOK! ISN’T IT WONDERFUL!?!**
We all gasped! It was quite a surreal moment that this very *proper* nun would do such as rascally thing. :)
Funny you say *heist* ....the MFA is within spitting distance from the Isabelle Gardner Museum...where one of the most mysterious art *heists* evah occurred.
It is truly jaw-dropping .... the reins on the horse are cat-whisker thin!
Next time someone runs their sump about how the US must return land to this or that tribe, I’m gonna counter with “only after Italy returns the lands it stole from the Etruscan people!”.
I saw what you did there.
And it was very clever.
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