How did the Etruscans, powerful neighbors of Rome, disappear from history? Were they destroyed, or culturally absorbed?

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The recent rescue excavation of a 2nd century BCE burial site in the southern Tuscany region of Italy is providing a previously unseen glimpse of the Etruscan identity that survived ...

Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut to straighten teeth. It’s a tale ...

America hasn’t had a major Etruscan exhibition since 2009, when Dallas’s Meadows Museum hosted “New Light on the Etruscans.” That changes in May 2026, when San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum ...

The Etruscan custom of writing on linen has left little for scholars to pick over. We have no Etruscan histories, philosophies, or epics and so—ignoring the often-disparaging commentaries produced by ...

Known as a kore, this 2,500 year-old-statue is a fusion of ancient aesthetics and a symbol of cultural exchange between the ...

Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more than 2,500 years ago. Now, it is possible to do so from a computer, even a ...

Excavations at Bagno Grande suggest an Etruscan medical school, revealing evidence of ancient healing practices.

Italian authorities have recovered several Etruscan antiquities stolen by tomb raiders from a burial site in central Italy. Emanuele Antonio Minerva / Courtesy of the Italian Ministry of Culture ...