Posted on 08/13/2007 4:43:25 PM PDT by blam
Intact 2,000-year old Etruscan tomb discovered
Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:58PM BST
By Deepa Babington
ROME (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered a more than 2,000-year-old Etruscan tomb perfectly preserved in the hills of Tuscany with a treasure trove of artefacts inside, including urns that hold the remains of about 30 people.
The tomb, in the Tuscan town of Civitella Paganico, probably dates from between the 1st and 3rd centuries B.C., when Etruscan power was in decline, Andrea Marcocci, who led digging at the site, told Reuters.
"It's quite rare to find a tomb intact like this," said Marcocci, who had suspected one might exist in the area after work on a nearby road scattered pieces of artefacts.
"When we found fragments outside, we thought we would find that the tomb had been violated. But the main burial room was completely intact."
Inside the tomb, a narrow corridor led to a small burial chamber, about 2 metres long and 1.79 metres wide, he said. It housed about 80 objects including vases and mirrors in bronze and ceramic. Urns holding human remains were also found.
"It's quite exceptional to find so many objects in a tomb so small," Marcocci said. "Some of the vases (urns) were fairly small, so we think they were probably for children."
One of Italy's first and most mysterious civilisations, the Etruscans lived north of Rome in present day regions of Tuscany and Umbria. Their civilisation lasted for about 1,000 years, reaching its height roughly from the 7th to the 6th century B.C., before its cities were replaced by Roman settlements.
Much of what is known about the Etruscans derives from other lavish burial sites, decorated with paintings and filled with vases and other objects.
HUN
Definition:
[noun] offensive terms for a person of German descent
Synonyms: Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun
I have a ‘cute’ filter, but then, open season!
My guess he was a Socialist - the anti-creation, anti-life ends-justify-means destructive force of evil on this earth.
Well, “Hun” is a derogatory term for a German, like the “N” word for a black. The appropriate use for the term “Hun” is as a reference to the Turkic (presumably) peoples from Central Asia who invaded the Roman Empire in the late Empire.
The British propaganda machine picked up on one unfortunate use of the term “Hun” by the Kaiser in WW1 when referring to his troops and how they should behave, blew it out of context, and used it a figure of speech to defame WW1 German troops.
Considering what the Brits had recently done in Ireland and were engaged in doing in India at the time, I think “Hun” would probably have been far more appropriate to employ in their case at the time.
Ping.
Hun is certainly a derisive term.
It is used most often to describe that particular quality somewhat unique to those of Germanic descent - being most comfortable and content when following orders.
Well, there are a lot of Americans who appear to have acquired that trait - they’re called liberals.
Liberals, Nazis.
They’re both Socialists (National Socialism = Nazi).
Is there a difference?
No.
Of course, we have thousands of Etruscan inscriptions from graves...it's be a nice change of pace to find a history or a work of literature or something!
Germans are not “Huns”, and the quote was from Churchill, not James Bond, who is a fictional character. Is your screen name “Stallone” because you’re as dumb as Sylvester?
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