The antediluvian kings colonized the world
All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas
In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis
Histories of ages past
Unenlightened shadows cast
Down through all eternity
The crying of humanity
I speak Italic! :)
Grazie di aver postato (per dire). Mi e piaciuto tanto ‘sto articolo.
Etruscans were really cool people. The Romans got a lot of their engineering prowess from the Etruscans.
I wonder how close is 'nearly' as with genetics it doesn't take that much. Second, the Roman origins myth holds that their founders were refugees from the City of Troy and specifically Aeneas. I'm sure Julius Caesar is pretty po'ed wherever he is.
Two sentences that contradict each other:
1. “it turns out the enigmatic Etruscans were local to the area, with nearly identical genetics to their Latin-speaking neighbors.
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2. “both groups appear to be migrants from the Pontic-Caspian steppe — a long, thin swath of land stretching from the north Black Sea around Ukraine to the north Caspian Sea in Russia.”
“local to the area” and “migrants from the Pontic-Caspian steppe”, are not one and the same thing.
My Ukrainian ancestors created Rome! And all this time I thought they were only Zaporozhian Cossacks
I said to my wife as soon as I saw the headline “I bet that this headline is a breathless exaggeration and scientists haven’t proved a darn thing.”
The Etruscans have the same genetics as the Italic peoples around them, eh? Ok, where did their language come from then, and why isn’t it like theirs?
Etruscan origins has been a 2000-year-old puzzle, and while this study contributes an interesting data set to the discussion, “solved” the matter it certainly hasn’t.
The Etruscans had some badass helmets and armor in a style that is sort of proto-Roman.
?? They weren't from Passaic, New Jersey?? 😯