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Secrets of the lost tribe
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TREASURES FROM TUSCANY: THE ETRUSCAN LEGACY, ROYAL MUSEUM,
EDINBURGH ****
'THE Etruscans, as everyone knows, were the people who occupied
the middle of Italy in early Roman days, and whom the Romans, in
their usual neighbourly fashion, wiped out entirely in order to make
room for Rome with a very big R." That was how DH Lawrence put it and
it is still a fair summary of what we think about the Etruscans - if
we think about them at all. If we do, we are likely to be vague, and
with reaso...
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