A 2,500-year-old tomb with vibrant red wall paintings has been unearthed at the ancient Tarquinia necropolis in Italy, the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the province ...

Tarquinia is famous for its 200 painted tombs, the earliest of which date from the 7th century BCE. These paintings provide the only major testimony of classic artwork of pre-Roman times existing in ...

The statues were from a family tomb located near the town of Tuscania ... but all the statues give new evidence of the closeness of Etruscan to Roman art. Says Professor Mario Moretti, regent ...

Some of the underground tombs left by the Etruscans who lived there 2,500 years, ago still contain priceless art treasures ... and much of the secret out of Etruscan tomb-hunting.

In 1882, in an Etruscan tomb near Veii, about 16 kilometers north of Rome, a Greek pitcher—an olpe—was discovered. It had ...

A Danish family has returned three ancient artifacts to Italy after their father purchased them in the 1960s. The items, ...