Intact, Packed Etruscan Tomb Found

Discovery News ^ | December 4, 2015 | Rossella Lorenzi

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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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This was an interesting podcast to listen to today at work: Joe Rogan Experience #725 - Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson.

[TruthWillWin]

Looks like Budda to me.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

I should have left home first and found some pot brownies before that podcast. They tiptoed over some Velikovsky stuff in a very superficial way (and without mentioning him by name), Rogan attributed colony collapse disorder (the domesticated bee problem) without mentioning it by name, to our use of cell phones (!) and pesticides. I've always found Hancock to be entertaining, and about ten percent of the non-small-talk stuff he says is actually real and/or correct. But no, the Giza pyramids aren't 10s of 1000s of years old. And his first book (actually read that one) wasn't it the first one, about the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia, was pretty engaging in spots. The Ethiopians don't have the Ark of the Covenant, btw, they have an Egyptian (New Kingdom date) coffin of some sort (my best guess, I have a vague plan of getting an insect-sized drone inside there someday) and just call it the Ark to fit into their basically borrowed, botched version of Judaism.