Fortunately, the wall paintings were mostly intact. The funerary art on the walls of the tomb illustrates various scenes of Etruscan life and culture, providing valuable information about the ...

The funerary art that adorns the tomb includes various scenes of Etruscan life and culture, providing valuable insight into the ancient civilization. Three walls of the tomb are decorated with ...

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 ...

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, ...

The site contains very different types of tombs: trenches cut in rock; tumuli; and some, also carved in rock, in the shape of huts or houses with a wealth of structural details. These provide the only ...