In 1921, Italy first wanted something it couldn't have. On this Monday in Rome, the Italian government finally got it. The ...

First major US exhibition on the Etruscans in two decades presents their legacy of art, architecture, and engineering, this exhibition offers a bold new understanding of life, beliefs, and culture in ...

D.H. LAWRENCE was fascinated by the Etruscans. The English writer referred to the “lost” ways of the ancient Italian civilisation in his letters; in poems he imagined the people as “long-nosed, ...

America hasn’t had a major Etruscan exhibition since 2009, when Dallas’s Meadows Museum hosted “New Light on the Etruscans.” That changes in May 2026, when San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum ...

It's a hot summer night in Marta and the dark streets by the waterfront are full of expectant chatter. Any time now, the patron saint will arrive on the waves and the whole town is ready to receive ...

The Etruscans lived in what is now Italy from about 800 BCE to the first century BCE when they were assimilated into the Roman Empire. Their language is now gone, but some of their culture has ...

Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed more than two dozen 2,000-year-old bronze statues, many of which are impeccably preserved in millennia of mud, alongside thousands of coins left there by Romans ...

When workers pried a stone slab from a hillside near the town of Barbarano Romano in central Italy, stale air rushed out of a chamber that had been sealed since roughly 600 BCE. Inside, more than 100 ...

The most extraordinary smile has been beaming down at Romans from hoardings all over the city this week. It belongs to a statue of the Apollo of Veio, the vanished Etruscan city a few miles north of ...

Early Etruscans had advanced knowledge of art, farming and metallurgy, leading some historians to believe the civilization originated elsewhere before settling in what is now Italy. DNA analysis shows ...