In the Altes Museum in Berlin rests one of the most enigmatic treasures of antiquity. It is a simple terracotta tablet, about ...

Tam festival’s loveable book character logo is made of “one single, slightly crooked line” – that’s what makes it so special.

Archaeologists in central Italy have opened a 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb and found four people laid out on carved stone ...

Ancient genomes solve the Etruscan paradox, showing how genes shifted for centuries while their language stayed unchanged.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ROME (AP) — Italy on Tuesday put on display one of the best known examples of Etruscan painting, panels from a tomb that it ...

Mastarna (Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome) frees Celio Vibenna from chains in this fresco from the Francois Tomb. Dea Picture Library / Getty Images Some of the best-preserved paintings from ...

The Italian Ministry of Culture acquired the frescoes this year for $17 million, after also snapping up a Caravaggio and an Antonello. A scene from the François Tomb. Photo: courtesy the Italian ...

The Italian state spent €15 million on a series of celebrated frescoes found in the central hall of the tomb, which were painted between 340 and 320 BCE. One of the most important surviving pieces of ...

ROME (AP) — Italy on Tuesday put on display one of the best known examples of Etruscan painting, panels from a tomb that it acquired for 15 million euros ($17 million) in the Culture Ministry’s buying ...

Italy on Tuesday put on display one of the best known examples of Etruscan painting, from a tomb that has become the latest acquisition in the Culture Ministry’s buying spree of big-ticket pieces of ...

When archaeologists unwrapped an Egyptian mummy, they weren’t expecting jewels, a curse, or a royal secret — they found pages from a lost book written in a language that didn’t even belong in Egypt.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Baylor University Freshly published research on an Etruscan tomb describes a rare archaeological discovery: a burial ...