Pioneers that time forgot

From: The Scotsman | Date: July 10, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

FOR 700 YEARS THEY WERE THE BUSInessmen of Europe. They taught the Romans how to build cities and their skill with precious metals has scarcely been equalled. Along with Greece and Rome, they laid the foundations of our modern civilisation. So why have we barely heard of the Etruscans?

An enigmatic people, they seem to have slipped quietly from history. But their paintings and artefacts give us tantalising snapshots of a society that prospered in the fertile lands of Tuscany from 900BC. "It has been an absolute revelation," says Elizabeth Goring, curator of Southern Europe at the National ...

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