[blam]

GGG Ping.

[NonValueAdded]

I kinda pictured a vase sitting at the hub ... I wonder why?

[Larry Lucido]

Early Etruscans (artist's rendition)

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

ping for future.

[SaxxonWoods]

Eccellente! Orvieto is a gorgeous walled city built on the gray volcanic rock mentioned in the article. This is a great find, hopefully there will be tours available for tourists in the future. Go to your best local winery and pick up a bottle of Orvieto Classico to celebrate. You'll be glad you did!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam, will ping.

Pre-Roman sanctuary discovered [ Etruscan federation ]
News 24 | Sep 2 2006 | unattributed
Posted on 09/02/2006 3:09:24 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1694485/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, I lied. Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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[Fred Nerks]

Voltumna, also known as Veltha, is a chthonic god of the Etruscans, later elevated to the status of supreme god. He is also the patron god of the federation of twelve Etruscan city states. The center of his cult was in Volsini.

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Bolsena, or the ancient Volsinium, was one of the chief cities of the Etruscans, the people whose civilization preceded that of the Latin Romans on the Apennine Peninsula. The Etruscan states occupied the area of what was later known as Tuscany, between the Tiber and the Arno.

Near Bolsena, or Volsinium, is a lake of the same name. This lake fills a basin nine miles long, seven miles wide, and 285 feet deep. For a long time this basin was regarded as a water-filled crater of a volcano. However, it's area of 117 square kilometres exceeds by far that of the largest known craters on earth - those in the Andes in South America and those in the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands in the Pacific. Hence, the idea that the lake is the crater of an extinct volcano has recently been questioned. Moreover, although the bottom of the lake is of lava, and the ground around the lake abounds with ashes and lava and columns of basalt, the talus of a volcano is lacking...

Worlds In Collision. page 262-263. Immanuel Velikovsky.

Check out the site in Google Earth. Fascinating.