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The Ancient Civilization of the Etruscans: A Mysterious and Forgotten People
An overview of Etruria in central Italy from about 900 to 100 BCE: its cities, language, religion, trade and absorption by Rome, and why it is called mysterious.
Greece, Rome and Europe
Etruscan History and Origins
The people of Etruria in central Italy, their cities, beliefs, origins and decline.
The Ancient Civilization of the Etruscans: A New Discovery
No single new find rewrote Etruscan history, but excavations at Cerveteri, Tarquinia and other necropolises keep adding detail. Here is what has been found and when.
The Ancient Etruscans: A Mysterious Civilization of Italy
How the independent Etruscan cities, including Veii, Tarquinia and Caere, were governed, allied and competed, and what the traditional league of twelve really was.
The Ancient Etruscans: A Mystery of Origins and Influence
Did the Etruscans come from Lydia, as Herodotus said, or develop in Italy? A look at ancient theories, the language evidence and what genetic studies now suggest.
The Ancient Etruscans: The Mysterious People of Italy
Etruscan religion and divination: how haruspices read animal livers and lightning, what the Etruscan Discipline contained, and how Rome borrowed these practices.
The Forgotten Civilization of the Etruscans
The Etruscan kings of early Rome, from Tarquinius Priscus to Tarquinius Superbus, what the tradition says, and what Etruscan rule left in Roman customs and symbols.
The Forgotten Civilization of the Etruscans: A New Look
Etruscan women dined with men, kept their own names and appear prominently in tomb art. What tombs, inscriptions and hostile Greek comment can and cannot tell us.
The Forgotten History of the Ancient Etruscan Civilization
How Etruria lost power to Greeks, Celts and Rome between the 6th and 1st centuries BCE, from Alalia and Cumae to Veii, Volsinii and final absorption into Rome.
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