What is the origin of the ancient Etruscans, and what do we know to date from archaeological and genetic research?

A rare untouched tomb from the Etruscans, a civilization that predated the Roman Republic, has been discovered in central Italy. The tomb, carved from stone in the shape of a small house, contains the ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian authorities have recovered precious 3rd century B.C. artefacts from an Etruscan necropolis looted by a couple of bungling tomb raiders in Umbria who stumbled across the haul ...

Imagine stepping into a 2,500-year-old tomb—without ever leaving your sofa. Using advanced digital technology, Swedish researchers have documented and visualized nearly 280 Etruscan chamber tombs in ...

VEIO, Italy -- A suspected tomb raider turned police informant has led archaeologists to what experts described Friday as the oldest known frescoed burial chamber in Europe. The tomb, located on a ...

Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more than 2,500 years ago. Now, it is possible to do so from a computer, even a ...

Known as a kore, this 2,500 year-old-statue is a fusion of ancient aesthetics and a symbol of cultural exchange between the ...

In the scrubby, rolling country northwest of Rome lies rich archaeological pay dirt, but the worthwhile pockets are as hard to hit as producing oil wells. Some of the underground tombs left by the ...

Just when you think we’ve got a handle on history, experts go and make groundbreaking discoveries that shed new light on what we thought we knew. Archaeologists, in particular, have a knack for ...

Venice is hardly the most logical location for a show on the Etruscans, a people who flourished in central Italy before the Romans. The majority of Etruscan tombs are much closer to Rome, in the ...