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Painted terracotta funerary urn lid of an Etruscan woman, from Chiusi, ca. 150-120 BCE (Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany).

Chiusi (Etruscan name: Clevsin, Roman: Clusium), located in central Italy, was an important Etruscan town from the 7th to 2nd century BCE. Relations with the Romans famously soured when the king of Chiusi, Lars Porsenna, attacked Rome at...

A bronze head of a youth. Etruscan, from Vipsul (modern Fiesole), c. 330 BCE. (Museo Archeologico Etrusco, Florence)

Gold earrings from the Etruscan city of Populonia in north-west Italy. 350-300 BCE. (British Museum, London)

A gold bracelet from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb at Etruscan Cerveteri, Italy. 7th century BCE. The design has trios of women repeated around the bracelet whose hair suggests a Phoenician origin. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

An Etruscan funerary urn from Volterra showing a winged Triton. 2nd century BCE. (National Archaeological Museum of Florence, Italy)

A gold sheet pectoral from the Etruscan Regolini-Galassi Tomb at Cerveteri, Italy. 7th century BCE. Height: 42 cm. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

A cup with sheet silver decoration from the Etruscan Regolini-Galassi Tomb at Cerveteri, Italy. 7th century BCE. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

Black-figure hydria from Vulci, Etruria, attributed to the Micali Painter, c. 510-500 BCE. The British Museum, London This Italiote reproduction of the Greek naval invasion of Troy based on the Iliad is shaped around a bireme (diiris...

Learn about the ancient Etruscans at the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, arguably the most important collection of ancient art about the Etruscans and ancient Italic cultures. Join Archaeologist Darius Arya of #ancientromelive...