Tuscans 'not descended from Etruscans'

Italy Mag ^ | 04 July 2009 | Italy

[RichInOC]

So whatever did happen to those darned Etruscans?

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. :’)

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[SunkenCiv]

Etruscan Ruins Show How Ancients Lived
	· 04/08/2002 5:05:24 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 6 replies · 662+ views · IOL | 4-7-2002 | Shasta Darlington The ruins of an Etruscan mining city abandoned almost 3 000 years ago are giving archaeologists an unprecedented look at one of Italy's first and most mysterious civilisations. Since stumbling across the ruins of a single stone dwelling in the early 1980s, archaeologists have found the region, on the shores of a lake in central Italy, was once the site of an Etruscan city in 700 BC and 600 BC. "It's an extraordinary find because almost all Etruscan ruins are necropoli," said Giovannangelo Camporeale,...
Church's taxation enrages Italians [bishop reinstates medieval church property tax]
	· 01/13/2003 12:26:46 PM PST · Posted by Polycarp · 20 replies · 354+ views London Sunday Telegraph | Bruce Johnston The people and politicians of a Tuscan village are in revolt against their bishop after he reinstated a medieval church property tax at heavy new levels. In protest, many devout Roman Catholics are boycotting Mass and withholding collection payments. The bills began arriving over Christmas at the homes of hundreds of property owners in Terricciola, a picturesque village of 4,000 people that sits in rolling, vine-covered hills near Pisa. Many are for large sums, some as high as $2,000. The diocese of Volterra insists that the money is...
Lost No More: An Etruscan Rebirth
	· 04/15/2003 10:36:32 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 7 replies · 357+ views · New York Times | 4-15-2003 | John Noble Wilford The Romans relished their founding myths. Aeneas, a fugitive from fallen Troy, anchored in the mouth of the Tiber River and there in the hills of Latium rekindled the flame of Trojan greatness. Romulus and Remus, twin sons of Mars and a sleeping beauty, were suckled by a she-wolf and grew up to establish the city destined for grandeur. In reality, though, the Romans owed more than they ever admitted to their accomplished predecessors and former enemies on the Italian peninsula, the Etruscans. They were known...
Etruscan Demons, Monsters Unearthed
	· 11/05/2003 8:18:48 AM PST · Posted by blam · 55 replies · 1,244+ views · Discovery news.com | 11-5-2003 | Rossella Lorenzi Etruscan Demons, Monsters Unearthed Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Demonic Charioteer with the Shadow of DeathNov. 5, 2003 -- Etruscan art, made of strange demons and monsters, is emerging in a Tuscan village, in what could be one of the most important discoveries of recent times, according to scholars who have seen the paintings. Lurking on the left wall of a 4th century B.C. tomb, the exceptionally preserved monsters have been unearthed during the ongoing excavation of the Pianacce necropolis in Sarteano, a village 50 miles from Siena, Italy. "So far we have found some scenes of banquets, snake-like monsters, demons,...
Ghost Fleet 'Shows Pisa Was An Ancient Venice'
	· 11/21/2003 6:44:54 PM PST · Posted by blam · 19 replies · 777+ views · The Telegraph (UK) | 11-22-2003 | Bruce Johnson The chance discovery of a Roman "ghost fleet" buried in mud just outside Pisa has led experts to conclude that the city was built on a lagoon much like an early Venice. Archaeologists believe that traces of a community dating back to a pre-Roman era, a sort of "Etruscan Venice", may lie beneath the ships. The end of the lagoon civilisation may also offer clues to the fate of modern Venice - the waterways were silted up by violent floods over a long period. "The...
Discovering Dante's Damsel In Distress
	· 12/01/2003 1:16:10 PM PST · Posted by blam · 4 replies · 195+ views · Discovery.com | 12-1-2003 | Rossella Lorenzi A Majolica Jug: Missing Link? -- A 14th century jug unearthed in a Tuscan castle might shed new light on one of the most touching and mysterious female figures in Dante's Divine Comedy, according to Italian archaeologists. Legend has always linked Castel di Pietra, a castle near the village of Gavorrano in the Tuscan Maremma, with the sad fate of Pia dei Tolomei, a lady supposedly imprisoned there and then murdered by her jealous husband. "Do thou remember me who am the Pia/ Siena made me, unmade me...
Dietler Discovers Statue In France That Reflects Etruscan Influence
	· 02/19/2004 3:22:01 PM PST · Posted by blam · 4 replies · 275+ views · University Of Chicago Chronicle | 2-19-2004 | William Harms This image depicts the reconstruction of the statue Michael Dietler found at Lattes in southern France. An image of the statue is positioned in the torso area of the figure of the warrior." A life-sized statue of a warrior discovered in southern France reflects a stronger cultural influence for the Etruscan civilization throughout the western Mediterranean region than previously appreciated. Michael Dietler, Associate Professor in Anthropology, and his French colleague Michel Py have published a paper in the British journal Antiquity on the Iron Age...
Fabled Etruscan Kingdom Emerging?
	· 04/22/2004 6:18:57 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 12 replies · 543+ views · Discovery News | 4-22-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi The fabled kingdom of the Etruscan king Lars Porsena is coming to light in the Tuscan hills near Florence, according to an Italian University professor. Known as Chamars, where the lucumo (king) Porsena reigned in the 6th century B.C., this was the leading city-state of the Etruscan civilization that dominated much of Italy before the emergence of Rome. It was from there that Porsena is said to have launched his most successful attack upon Rome in order to restore the exiled Tarquinius Superbus to the throne. Porsena...
Huge Etruscan Road Brought To Light
	· 06/17/2004 3:38:42 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 31 replies · 4,197+ views · Discovery News | 6-16-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi A plain in Tuscany destined to become a dump has turned out to be an archaeologist's dream, revealing the biggest Etruscan road ever found. Digging in Capannori, near Lucca, archaeologist Michelangelo Zecchini has uncovered startling evidence of an Etruscan "highway" which presumably linked Etruscan Pisa, on the Tyrrhenian coast, to the Adriatic port of Spina. Passing through Bologna, the ancient "two-sea highway" runs just a few meters away from today's modern highway which links Florence to the Tyrrhenian coast. "It all started...
50 Ancient Tombs Uncovered (1400BC, Crete)
	· 07/18/2004 1:17:56 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 54 replies · 1,988+ views · The Australian | 7-18-2004 Archeologists have discovered 50 tombs dating back to the late Minoan period, around 1400 BC, and containing a number of artifacts on the Greek island of Crete, ANA news agency reported today. The tombs were part of the once powerful ancient city of Kydonia, which was destroyed at the time but later rebuilt. The oldest among them contained bronze weapons, jewellery and vases and are similar to the tombs of fallen soldiers of the Mycenaean type from mainland Greece, said the head of the excavations, Maria Vlazaki. The more...
The Etruscans: Reopening the Case of the Mute Civilization
	· 08/04/2004 11:39:04 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 18 replies · 723+ views · New York Times | May 27, 2001 | Alan Riding Yet even the catalog is wary of answering the question central to the "mystery" of the Etruscans: where did they come from? Did they migrate from Greece or beyond? Did they travel down from the Alps? Or, as their pre- Indo-European language might suggest, were they a people indigenous to today's Tuscany who suddenly acquired the tools for rapid development? Such are the pros and cons of each theory, the French historian Dominique Briquel notes in his catalog essay, that "the problem must be held to be unresolved." ...[T]hey spoke the same language, which also existed in a written...
Etruscan Engineering and Agricultural Achievements: The Ancient City of Spina
	· 08/17/2004 9:05:30 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 1,203+ views · The Mysterious Etruscans | Last modified on Tue, 17-Aug-2004 15:36:27 GMT | editors Over the centuries the belief lingered on that here had been a great, wealthy, powerful commercial city that dominated the mouth of the Po and the shores of the Adriatic, a city of luxury and splendor, a kind of ancestor and predecessor of Venice, founded more than a thousand years later. Classical scholars also knew about Spina, for ancient literary sources indicated that there must once have existed a thriving maritime trading settlement of great economic importance, until the Celtic invasion of the Po valley destroyed it... The final key to its ultimate discovery came from aerial photography. Some...
Archaeologists May Have Found What Was Once The Biggest City In Italy
	· 11/07/2004 5:27:22 PM PST · Posted by blam · 47 replies · 1,888+ views · The Economist | 11-4-2004 Archaeologists may have found what was once the biggest city in Italy REAL archaeology bears about as much resemblance to an Indiana Jones movie as real spying bears to James Bond. Excavation -- at least if it is to be meaningfully different from grave robbing -- is a matter of painstaking trowel work, not gung-ho gold-grabbing. But there is still a glimmer of the grave robber in many archaeologists, and the search for a juicy royal tomb can stimulate more than just rational, scientific instincts. Few tombs would...
Tuscany's Etruscan Claim Knocked
	· 05/16/2006 11:30:01 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 19 replies · 557+ views · ANSA | 5-16-2006 Modern Tuscans not descendants of ancient people, DNA says -- The Tuscans' proud claim to be the descendants of the ancient Etruscans has taken a knock . A DNA comparison of Etruscan skeletons and a sample of living Tuscans has thrown up only "tenuous genetic similarities", said lead researcher Guido Barbujani of Ferrara University . "If the Tuscans were the direct descendants of the Etruscans the DNA should be the same," said Barbujani, a genetecist who coordinated the study with Stanford University in the United States . The study, which appears in...
Man Leads Archaeologists To Frescoed Tomb (Europe's Oldest)
	· 06/16/2006 2:21:35 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 20 replies · 807+ views · ABC News | 6-16-2006 Suspected Tomb Raider Leads Archaeologists to Frescoed Tomb North of Rome; May Be Europe's Oldest. his photo provided by the Italian Ministry of Culture on Friday, June 16, 2006 shows a frescoed burial decorated with migratory birds, in the town of Veio, near Rome. Experts on Friday, June 16, 2006 described the tomb as the oldest known frescoed burial chamber in Europe. It belonged to a warrior prince from the nearby Etruscan town of Veio, and dates back to 690 B.C. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Ministry of Culture, HO) VEIO, Italy Jun 16, 2006 (AP) -- A suspected tomb...
FSU Etruscan expert announces historic discovery at ancient site [ Cetamura ]
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Pre-Roman sanctuary discovered [ Etruscan federation ]
	· 09/02/2006 12:09:24 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 294+ views · News 24 | Sep 2 2006 | unattributed Archaeologists digging near the central Italian town of Orvieto believe they have discovered the 2 500-year-old ruins of the main sanctuary of the Etruscan federation, a central meeting point where political and religious leaders gathered once a year to discuss important matters. The University of Macerata announced on Friday that the site at the foot of the Umbrian town was probably the location of the Fanum Voltumnae, the federal sanctuary for the 12 Etruscans towns. But the project's lead archaeologist, Simonetta Stopponi, warned that the ultimate confirmation would only come with the discovery of an inscription to the Etruscan god...
Hub Of Etruscan Civilization Found
	· 09/04/2006 3:17:17 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 11 replies · 2,615+ views · The Times | 9-2-2006 | Martin Penner Archaeologists believe that they have found the ruins of the religious and political centre of the Etruscan civilisation. The Etruscans lived in the area between Rome and Florence from the 8th century BC until they were absorbed by Romans about 600 years later. The heads of Etruria's 12 city states would meet to discuss their affairs every spring at a holy place called the Fanum Voltumnae. It was never clear where the Fanum was but archaeologists from Macerata University believe they have found it at a site near the hill town of...
Etruscan Holy City Discovered
	· 09/08/2006 7:56:21 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 18 replies · 1,325+ views · ANSA | 9-8-2006 Fledgling Rome 'trembled' when leaders of 12 cities met -- Italian archaeologists believe they have found the mysterious sanctuary which was the religious and political centre of the Etruscan civilisation. The Etruscans were an ancient people known to have lived in the area of Italy between Rome and Florence from the 8th century BC until they were absorbed by Rome about 600 years later. For centuries they dominated the fledgling city on the Tiber and even supplied its first kings. But most traces of the Etruscan civilisation, which produced sophisticated art,...
On The Origin Of The Etruscan Civilisation
	· 02/14/2007 8:39:18 AM PST · Posted by blam · 20 replies · 976+ views · New Scientist | 2-14-2007 | Michael Day Etruscan cippus (grave marker) in the shape of a warrior head. Found in Orvieto, Italy One of anthropology's most enduring mysteries - the origins of the ancient Etruscan civilisation - may finally have been solved, with a study of cattle. This culturally distinct and technologically advanced civilisation inhabited central Italy from about the 8th century BC, until it was assimilated into Roman culture around the end of the 4th century BC. The origins of the Etruscans, with their own non-Indo-European language, have been debated...
DNA Boosts Herodotus' Account of Etruscans as Migrants to Italy
	· 04/03/2007 9:27:29 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 57 replies · 1,199+ views · NY Times | April 3, 2007 | NICHOLAS WADE Geneticists have added an edge to a 2,500-year-old debate over the origin of the Etruscans, a people whose brilliant and mysterious civilization dominated northwestern Italy for centuries until the rise of the Roman republic in 510 B.C. Several new findings support a view held by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus -- but unpopular among archaeologists -- that the Etruscans originally migrated to Italy from the Near East. Though Roman historians played down their debt to the Etruscans, Etruscan culture permeated Roman art, architecture and religion. The Etruscans were master metallurgists and skillful seafarers who for a time dominated much of...
Ancient Etruscans Were Immigrants From Anatolia (Turkey)
	· 06/17/2007 4:55:52 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 42 replies · 1,679+ views · Eureka Alert | 6-17-2007 | Mary Rice [European Society of Human Genetics] Geneticists find the final piece in the puzzle Nice, France: The long-running controversy about the origins of the Etruscan people appears to be very close to being settled once and for all, a geneticist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today. Professor Alberto Piazza, from the University of Turin, Italy, will say that there is overwhelming evidence that the Etruscans, whose brilliant civilisation flourished 3000 years ago in what is now Tuscany, were settlers from...
Intact 2,000-Year Old Etruscan Tomb Discovered
	· 08/13/2007 4:43:25 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 30 replies · 930+ views · Reuters | 8-13-2007 | Deepa Babington Archaeologists have discovered a more than 2,000-year-old Etruscan tomb perfectly preserved in the hills of Tuscany with a treasure trove of artefacts inside, including urns that hold the remains of about 30 people. The tomb, in the Tuscan town of Civitella Paganico, probably dates from between the 1st and 3rd centuries B.C., when Etruscan power was in decline, Andrea Marcocci, who led digging at the site, told Reuters. "It's quite rare to find a tomb intact like this," said Marcocci, who had...
Omens and Superstitions (Romans and Etruscans)
	· 09/06/2007 6:18:31 AM PDT · Posted by Renfield · 10 replies · 247+ views · Roman-Empire.net A superstitious Society Compare to modern society, the Romans seem extremely superstitious. But then today's major religions have all throughout their past discouraged, even combatted, superstitions. Also our sciences and our technological world allows little room for superstition. The Romans lived in an era previous to this. Their world was full of unexplained phenomena, darkness and fear. To Romans these superstitions were a perfectly natural part in the relationship between gods and men. The Roman habit of interpreting natural phenomena as signs from the beyond stemmed from the Etruscans. The Etruscans, who developed reading omens and auspices into a form...
Ancient World Treasure Unearthed
	· 10/05/2007 10:57:39 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 12 replies · 751+ views · BBC | 10-5-2007 | David Willey The head of a satyr was discovered during the dig After seven hot summers of digging, an Italian archaeological team believe they have discovered one of the most important sites of the ancient world. Fanum Voltumnae, a shrine, marketplace and Etruscan political centre, was situated in the upper part of the Tiber river valley. It lies at the foot of a huge outcrop of rock, upon which is perched the mediaeval city of Orvieto. A walled sanctuary area, 5m-wide (16ft) Etruscan roads, an altar, and the foundations of many Roman...
Italian Builders Uncover (27) 2,000 year Old Tombs (Etruscans)
	· 05/08/2008 1:51:25 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 13 replies · 43+ views · The Scotsman | 5-7-2008 Archaeologists were yesterday celebrating the discovery of 27 2,000-year-old tombs in Italy's "Valley of the Dead". The tombs, some dating back to the 7th century BC, were found by chance while builders carried out work. The whole area was sealed off yesterday and put under police guard to prevent anyone from trying to steal artefacts inside the burial chambers. Grave robbers, or tombaroli as they are known in Italy, make a lucrative living from selling such objects to museums or private collectors. Archaeologists say there is also a "good chance" that there may well be...
Etruscan tomb unearthed in Perugia
	· 07/09/2008 9:46:57 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 22 replies · 129+ views · ANSA.it | Tuesday, July 8, 2008 | unattributed An ancient Etruscan tomb has resurfaced after centuries underground during the course of building work in the central Italian city of Perugia. The tomb, which has been preserved in excellent condition, contains seven funerary urns, the municipal archaeology department said. It is in the shape of a square and was covered by a sheet of travertine marble, which had apparently remained untouched since being laid centuries ago. The tomb is split into two halves by a pillar and there are two benches running along each side. The funerary urns, which were placed on the benches, were marked with brightly coloured...
'Etruscan Treasures' On View At Dallas's Meadows Museum
	· 02/25/2009 6:17:39 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 21 replies · 463+ views · Antiques and the Arts | February 24th, 2009 | unattributed The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University [5900 Bishop Boulevard, 214-768-2516] presents "From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany," a comprehensive exhibition of Etruscan art, on view through May 17. More than 400 objects spanning the Ninth through Second Centuries BC are featured, drawn primarily from the renowned Florence Archaeological Museum, as well as from several smaller Italian museums and private collections. Many of the objects have never before traveled here. A complementary exhibition, "New Light on the Etruscans: Fifteen Years of Excavation at Poggio Colla," presents for the first time in North America the...
Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read
	· 05/29/2009 9:14:19 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 36 replies · 1,084+ views · New Scientist | 27 May 2009 | Andrew Robinson Writing is one of the greatest inventions in human history. Perhaps the greatest, since it made history possible. Without writing, there could be no accumulation of knowledge, no historical record, no science - and of course no books, newspapers or internet.The first true writing we know of is Sumerian cuneiform - consisting mainly of wedge-shaped impressions on clay tablets - which was used more than 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Soon afterwards writing appeared in Egypt, and much later in Europe, China and Central America. Civilisations have invented hundreds of different writing systems. Some, such as the one you are...