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Italy recovers Etruscan artefacts dug up by 'amateurish' tomb raiders
Straits Times ^ | November 19, 2024 | Reuters

Posted on 11/24/2024 8:45:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv

Italian authorities have recovered precious 3rd century B.C. artefacts from an Etruscan necropolis looted by a couple of bungling tomb raiders in Umbria who stumbled across the haul on their land...

The artefacts, including eight urns, two sarcophagi and beauty accessories such as bronze mirrors and a perfume bottle still redolent of its original scent, are worth at least 8 million euros ($8.5 million), Carabinieri art police said.

They were found in Citta della Pieve, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Rome.

One sarcophagus contained the full skeleton of a woman in her 40s, while the urns were finely decorated with scenes from Greek mythology and female figures with still visible red paint on their lips and gold colouring on their jewels...

The Carabinieri caught up with them after they posted pictures of their discovery on the internet in the hope of finding buyers, triggering investigations that included phone wiretaps, stakeouts and air surveillance drones.

Police finally swooped on the suspects after one of them posted on Facebook a picture of himself with a looted artefact, Cantone said...

Another Etruscan tomb, belonging to the same "Pulfna" family, was found in Citta della Pieve in 2015. At the time, the farmer who made the discovery reported it to authorities and got about 100,000 euros ($105,000) as a reward.

Citta della Pieve is close to San Casciano dei Bagni, a Tuscan village where a major archaeological discovery was announced in 2022, with ancient bronze statues found among the mud of thermal baths once used by Etruscans and Romans.

(Excerpt) Read more at straitstimes.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: etruscans; godsgravesglyphs; pulfna; romanempire; trollsonparade
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To: redfreedom

Right back at you — put a sock in it.

The acronym is quite widely used, your feigned ignorance notwithstanding, and the full phrase contains a impermissable word.


21 posted on 11/24/2024 9:27:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: BenLurkin

:^) They loved life.


22 posted on 11/24/2024 9:27:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Jim W N

At all.


23 posted on 11/24/2024 9:32:34 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: aquila48

Very.


24 posted on 11/24/2024 9:32:56 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SunkenCiv

Grave robbing should be left to professionals. This discovery is part of a national treasure, and valuable historical info was likely destroyed.


25 posted on 11/24/2024 9:54:34 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: SunkenCiv

“on their land” seems to me to be the real crux here. Seems to me that if they dug it up ON THEIR LAND, it is theirs...


26 posted on 11/24/2024 10:01:19 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: UnwashedPeasant

We prefer our grave robbers to have PhDs


27 posted on 11/24/2024 10:09:58 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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To: UnwashedPeasant
Almost right -- Graverobbing is not archaeology, and archaeology is not graverobbing. The canard is an old one and has been revived of late. Some years ago, a megalith that had been preserved in situ in a public park, I think in Spain, was vandalized, and purported supporters of the vandals popped up.

28 posted on 11/24/2024 10:14:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Democrat = party of treason
Plundering and selling antiquities is just a sign of budding sociopathy. In Italy and elsewhere (typically in places with deep cultural legacies) it's also illegal.

29 posted on 11/24/2024 10:18:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

On their land?


30 posted on 11/24/2024 10:49:40 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: SunkenCiv

On their land? Italy should compensate them handsomely.


31 posted on 11/24/2024 10:50:54 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ge0ffrey

“Another Etruscan tomb, belonging to the same “Pulfna” family, was found in Citta della Pieve in 2015. At the time, the farmer who made the discovery reported it to authorities and got about 100,000 euros ($105,000) as a reward.”

It’s right in the excerpt.


32 posted on 11/24/2024 10:56:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

They were a people of few words...


33 posted on 11/24/2024 12:32:58 PM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: FreedomPoster
The first time I was in Holland, a Dutchman at a bar joked about how silly Americans would come to Amsterdam and rebuild old buildings.

I told him, "We don't have any "old."

34 posted on 11/24/2024 2:08:13 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Most acronyms are typically can be typically Googled. Another observation is that secret name calling over implied criticism is a lefty thing. I appears you are upset Harris did not win, sorry for your loss.


35 posted on 11/24/2024 8:16:21 PM PST by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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