An extraordinary discovery has recently come to light off the coast of Adrasan, Turkey, offering a rare and well-preserved ...

Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...

Ancient Greek vases have revealed the hidden names of Amazons, mythology's warrior women, in a report deciphering ancient languages unspoken for millennia. In the forthcoming study of pottery ...

A team of Italian and German researchers has discovered in the ancient city of Kainua (present-day Marzabotto, near Bologna) the remains of a newborn baby that may be the first solid evidence of the ...

F or more than 30 years, the U.S. public has particularly favored a gallery in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art that displayed sculptures of three Etruscan warriors said to be 2,300 years old.

In the final days of 2022, a team of experts from the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria discovered a chamber tomb with exceptional ...

The tomb dates to the fifth century B.C.E. Due to grave robbers, there were just a few pieces of pottery left inside, but the painted walls are still mostly intact. The funerary art that adorns the ...

In the nineteenth century, the ancient tombs of Vulci, some 75 miles northwest of Rome and 25 miles west of Viterbo, were a stop on travelers’ Grand Tour of Europe.

Engraved gems and cameos: 1) Ancient indian gem (700 - 900 AD); 2) Priest and King guarded by two lions - Babylonian-Persian cylinder gem; 3) Five out of seven against thebes (Oedipus Trilogy) - ...

Italian authorities were recently alerted to photos of ancient Etruscan artifacts circulating online, including sarcophagi, urns, and funerary objects. The images highly suggested the items had been ...

Italian police have recovered a trove of “exceptionally valuable” Etruscan funereal artefacts stolen in an illegal excavation of a 2,300-year-old aristocratic tomb in Perugia.

Italian authorities have recovered precious 3rd century B.C. artifacts from an Etruscan necropolis looted by a couple of bungling tomb raiders in Umbria who stumbled across the haul on their land.