Golden oldies bound for Capital museum

From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: December 11, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

SPECTACULAR gold pieces, urns and life-sized sarcophagi will go on display in Edinburgh next year when the Royal Museum's next "blockbuster" exhibition opens to the public.

Hundreds of rare Etruscan objects are to feature in the exhibition at the Chambers Street attraction.

The display, Treasures from Tuscany, will showcase some of the region's most stunning objects from the Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilisation whose beginnings lay in the ninth century BC.

Altogether, almost 500 objects from the finest collections in Tuscany are going on show for the first time in the UK. The exhibition is ...

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