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To: JimSEA; SunkenCiv

Back in the day when I was studying ancient history at Columbia, one of the professors had a course on the Etruscans. Her father was a famous academician and archaeologist who worked on some of the earliest digs of Etruscan tombs and cities.

I remember that there was no translation of the Etruscan language and the aricle refers to it as a lost language still. Apparently no Rosetta stone has been found?


39 posted on 03/30/2016 3:47:52 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: wildbill

There’s at least one — but the relative lengths differ by a bit:

The Pyrgi Tablets: Bilingual Etruscan and Phoenician Text Inscribed in Gold (Circa 500 BCE)
http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=4676


40 posted on 03/30/2016 3:53:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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