[Unam Sanctam]

Most interesting. Now if they could only figure out where their non-Indo European language came from...

[SunkenCiv]

Possibly eastern Mediterranean.

Blam, this is the third topic about this. :') But the photo is way nicer. ;')

[neb52]

"non-Indo European language"

Supposedly it is very similar to the dead Anatolian Language, Lydian or Trojan. I have only read one book on the Etruscans called The Etruscans by Wheeler. He seems to think the same as Herodotus that the Etrucans are Lydian refugees. If they are truly native to that area or came from across the Alps, then how did they develop such a high civilization that is not to far from the Greek world? The Greek colonies had not been in South Italy long enough to influence the Etruscans by then. So could they have been native/immigrants from north of the Alps and then colonized or repopulated by Asia Minor/Greek people?

[SunkenCiv]

The Etruscans: Reopening the Case of the Mute Civilization
New York Times | May 27, 2001 | Alan Riding
Posted on 08/04/2004 2:39:04 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1185005/posts

Where Did The Etruscans Come From?
Etruscology website | June 2002 | Dieter H. Steinbauer
Posted on 08/07/2005 12:08:13 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1458504/posts