When.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: where did the etruscans originate

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Etruscan civilization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization

    Later history relates that some Etruscans lived in the Vicus Tuscus, [103] the "Etruscan quarter", and that there was an Etruscan line of kings (albeit ones descended from a Greek, Demaratus of Corinth) that succeeded kings of Latin and Sabine origin. Etruscophile historians would argue that this, together with evidence for institutions ...

  3. Etruscan origins - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_origins

    A recent Y-DNA study from 2018 on a modern sample of 113 individuals from Volterra, a town of Etruscan origin, Grugni at al. keeps all the possibilities open, although the autochthonous scenario is the most supported by numbers, and concludes that "the presence of J2a-M67* (2.7%) suggests contacts by sea with Anatolian people, the finding of ...

  4. Etruscan history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_history

    The Mars of Todi, a life-sized bronze sculpture of a soldier making a votive offering, late 5th to early 4th century BC Painted terracotta Sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, about 150–130 BC The Orator, c. 100 BC, an Etrusco-Roman bronze statue depicting Aule Metele (Latin: Aulus Metellus), an Etruscan man wearing a Roman toga while engaged in rhetoric; the statue features an ...

  5. Etruscan language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_language

    Etruscan coins have turned up in caches or individually in tombs and in excavations seemingly at random, and concentrated, of course, in Etruria. Etruscan coins were in gold, silver, and bronze, the gold and silver usually having been struck on one side only. The coins often bore a denomination, sometimes a minting authority name, and a cameo ...

  6. Etruscan cities - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_cities

    The Etruscan names of the major cities whose names were later Romanised survived in inscriptions and are listed below. Some cities were founded by Etruscans in prehistoric times and bore entirely Etruscan names. Others, usually Italic in origin, were colonised by the Etruscans, who in turn Etruscanised their name (around 9 BC).

  7. Padanian Etruria - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padanian_Etruria

    Traces of a 12th-9th century BC settlement, supposed of Villanovan origin, have been found in Verucchio. Later it was an Etruscan possession. Later it was an Etruscan possession. The current town derives its name from Vero Occhio ("True Eye"), referring to its privileged position offering a wide panorama of the surrounding countryside and the ...

  8. History of Italy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Italy

    Etruscans were a monogamous society that emphasized pairing. The historical Etruscans had achieved a form of state with remnants of chiefdom and tribal forms. The first attestations of an Etruscan religion can be traced to the Villanovan culture. [35] Etruscan expansion was focused across the Apennines. The political structure of the Etruscan ...

  9. Etruscology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscology

    The premier scholarly journal of Etruscan Studies is Studi Etruschi. A recent addition to the scholarly literature is the American journal, Etruscan Studies: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation, which began publication in 1994. A more informal organ is Etruscan News and the accompanying cyber-publication Etruscan News Online. [1]