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  • Archaeologists Open Tomb Untouched for 2,600 Years [Etruscans]

    11/07/2023 9:15:24 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 20 replies
    Newsweek ^ | November 1, 2023 | Aristos Georgiou
    ...The tomb lies within the archaeological site of Vulci—located between the municipalities of Montalto di Castro and Canino in Italy's central Lazio region—which preserves the ruins of an Etruscan city.The Etruscans were an ancient people who lived in parts of what is now Italy more than two thousand years ago. Their civilization reached its height in around the 6th century B.C., before being succeeded by the Romans, who adopted many features of their culture.Vulci was an important Etruscan settlement that flourished in the 6th to 4th centuries B.C.—largely thanks to trade, the extraction of minerals and the manufacture of bronze...