“‘Extraordinary Find’: Rare Religious Text Written in Lost Etruscan Language”

“‘Extraordinary Find’: Rare Religious Text Written in Lost Etruscan Language” 2016-04-03T11:03:56-06:00

 

Fresco in an Etruscan tomb chamber
An Etruscan tomb fresco (Wikimedia Commons)

 

Even in archaeologically well-plowed areas such as Italy, where written sources abound in ancient languages that (with the exception of Etruscan itself) are well understood — the future Roman emperor Claudius even wrote a history of the Etruscans and (he’s the last ancient person known to have been able to read it) a dictionary of the Etruscan language — significant discoveries remain to be made.  Unless, of course, this happens to be the very last one, ever:

 

 

http://www.livescience.com/54262-religious-text-in-lost-etruscan-language.html

 

 


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