[dodger]

Interesting development.

[r9etb]

few traces of their puzzling, non-Indo-European language survive

Related to the Basques?

[farmfriend]

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[VadeRetro]

It would be nice if they turned up a long bilingual text, say Latin and Etruscan. Almost all we know of the Etruscan language is from short bilinguals of the form "A. Doofus erected this to his father lest he be thought lacking in filial piety."

That red-haired lady is obviously some guy's ugly wife with a big fat cat. In fact, the cat looks a lot like a character from a Cary Grant - Katherine Hepburn movie. No need to get supernatural here.

[blam]

[LanPB01]

Looks like Helen Thomas to me.

[eastsider]

Yet mystery shrouds their history. First defeated by the Romans in the 4th century B.C., in 90 B.C., after centuries of decline, the Etruscans became Roman citizens. They left no literature to record their culture — few traces of their puzzling, non-Indo-European language survive. Only the richly decorated tombs they left behind provide a glimpse into their world.

Shame on the false Etruscan
Who lingers in his home,
When Porsena of Clusium
Is on the march for Rome.

[BushMeister]

Did someone say "Demon"?

[MarcoPolo]

There was a whole history of interaction between peoples the world over in ancient times that we moderns are largely unaware of. Most people's Darwinistic view of man's development has clouded their vision of the human race's many rises and falls in world travel, interaction, sophistication, and technology.

I find it quite interesting that pretty much every other piece of Etruscan art I've ever seen depicted dark haired and often dark skinned people. This person, I would imagine was most definitely not of that origin. If he is, and yes I think it's a he and not a she, then he would probably have been a far more ancient Etruscan, living long before the Etruscans became a uniformly dark haired people.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. I am fascinated by this find. Thank you for posting it.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Thanks for the post. Significant new finds are always interesting.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Bill and Hillary?

[Jonah Hex]

Hmmm... she bears a passing resemblance to Hillary!(tm) to me.

[Servant of the 9]

The figure with red hair is surely a death demon of some kind.

Yeah, redheads always bear watching.

So9

[tet68]

And here I thought it was Teraza HK~!

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[RightWhale]

The beginnings of Gothic style

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Do you know if they found the one that has a remarkable likeness to Helen Thomas?

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