It would be nice to know if large numbers of Etruscan books were recycled as mummy bandages, a practice that led to preservation of some fragments of a some ancient works.
I’d forgotten that ancient cultures invented the concept of recycling out necessity-no EPA needed...
I’ve read that a number of Roman Empire power brokers insisted they were descended from ancestors who were buried in Etruscan tombs-it would be interesting to know if that ancestry was really widespread...