Intact, Packed Etruscan Tomb Found

Discovery News ^ | December 4, 2015 | Rossella Lorenzi

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LOL....I think that what the man is holding is either bread or a wheel of cheese.

It couldn't more obviously be a slide carousel...

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Nope, he is holding the first fruit cake, no not a symbol of Obama, a real fruit cake.

Could be.

Did you, perchance, get that very fruitcake last year?

Who did you send it to this year?

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"Looks Roman to me."

The Etruscans were Turks.

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The Etruscans were Turks.

Do you mean they were from Asia Minor? Turkic peoples came from farther north and east. They didn't take over Asia Minor until long after the Etruscans.

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>>The Etruscans were Turks.

The Etruscans were Vikings. Yah, I know, goofy, until you read Felice Vinci’s - “The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Poems”. It’s on Amazon.

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The worker pried open the lid and found a singing frog.

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First tune was “Michigan Rag”. ;’)

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Wow! I’d love to find something like that while plowing my field!

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Ancient Etruscans Were Immigrants From Anatolia (Turkey)

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The Turks wish. The Etruscans came from the Aegean coastlines and islands, and were relatives of the Minoans and Carians/Hurrians; the Turks weren't anywhere near Anatolia until the Middle Ages. Turkish languages are firmly rooted in eastern and southern Asian agglutinative families.

• U of MT -- Mansfield Library Language Finger [FR topic]
• Turkic Languages [Language Finger]
• Agglutinating language [Glottopedia]
• Etruscan [Language Finger]
• Carian [Omniglot]
• Mitanni [Language Finger; in lieu of Hurrian]
• Cypriot syllabary [Omniglot]
• Minoan Greek [Language Finger; my ass]
• Undeciphered scripts [Omniglot]

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LOL

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Magnificent work.

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During my high school years, during a study hall period (I generally spent those in the library when I could) I first heard of 'em, some coffee-table book with longish, well-illustrated (probably Nat Geog) chapters devoted to individually little-known ancient folks. There was a chapter entitled "The X-Group Enigma" regarding an upper Nile discovery that was in the recent past at that time, but the one relevant to this rambling reply was called "The Etruscans: An Historic People Who Left No History". There used to be literally millions of intact grave goods and other artifacts. One of Napoleon relatives (I think it was, may have been Nappy III) got the license (what luck, eh?)to excavate some rather extensive mounds in Italy, and the haul was so large (it wasn't archaeology in the modern sense) that he thought it would destroy the market for the jugs and such. So, 90 percent of them were just summarily smashed to bits.

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Well.

Okay.

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As an undergrad, in college, in Boston, freshman year Western Civ was a requirement. Our prof was a Sister of Notre Dame who was a firecracker of a teacher. She took us on a field trip to the MFA .... and at that time, this magnificent tiny singular artifact was housed in a square, pillar like display case.

She gathered us all, asked us to surround it, and she started talking about the Etruscans and their devotion to gods, blah...blah....and without warning, took her elbow and banged the case ....the little chariot swung on its hook and she exclaimed *LOOK! ISN’T IT WONDERFUL!?!**

We all gasped! It was quite a surreal moment that this very *proper* nun would do such as rascally thing. :)

Funny you say *heist* ....the MFA is within spitting distance from the Isabelle Gardner Museum...where one of the most mysterious art *heists* evah occurred.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/arts/design/isabella-stewart-gardner-heist-25-years-of-theories.html?_r=0

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It is truly jaw-dropping .... the reins on the horse are cat-whisker thin!

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• New Lemnian Inscription [2014]

[Grimmy]

Next time someone runs their sump about how the US must return land to this or that tribe, I’m gonna counter with “only after Italy returns the lands it stole from the Etruscan people!”.

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Or possibly the reign of Nullus Mostellus -

I saw what you did there.

And it was very clever.