#Etruscans

Archaeoethnologica: Becoming Animal in the Ancient World / Tornar-se um Animal no Mundo Antigo

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#HistoryofReligions #AncientHistory #Animals #greeks #romans #etruscans #religion #gods #journals #openaccess

Archaeoethnologica: Becoming Animal in the Ancient World / Tornar-se um Animal no Mundo Antigo

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Archaeoethnologica: Becoming Animal in the Ancient World / Tornar-se um Animal no Mundo Antigo

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Archaeoethnologica: Becoming Animal in the Ancient World / Tornar-se um Animal no Mundo Antigo

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Archaeoethnologica: Becoming Animal in the Ancient World / Tornar-se um Animal no Mundo Antigo

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Archaeoethnologica: Becoming Animal in the Ancient World / Tornar-se um Animal no Mundo Antigo

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Today's poem:

To the Etruscan Poets
- by Richard Wilbur

Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young
Took with your mother's milk the mother tongue,

In which pure matrix, joining world and mind,
You strove to leave some line of verse behind

Like still fresh tracks across a field of snow,
Not reckoning that all could melt and go.

#poetry #etruscans #language
#history #loss #innocence #joy #RichardWilbur

Etruscan rhyton in the shape of a dog's head, terracotta, 475 BCE.

I had to look 'rhyton' up. It's an ancient, animal-shaped vessel used for pouring liquids. Since rhytons normally have an opening on each end, this one is actually upside-down. In any case, the potter who made it was a very fine artist.

Photo: Museo Nazionale Etrusco/National Etruscan Museum, Rome

#Etruscans #art #archaeology #pottery #artifacts #Italy

Cosimo Posth et al., The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect. Sci. Adv.7, eabi7673 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi7673 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Etruscans #Italy #Europe #Archaeogenetics #Biology #History #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons @anthropology

A DNA study shows that the Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilization in Italy, originated from the steppes of Eurasia, contradicting previous beliefs. Their cultural and genetic diversity influenced the Romans greatly.

#Etruscans #DNAstudy #AncientItaly

https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/20/dna-study-finds-etruscans-originated-steppes/?+and+Matter

"..a discovery that will rewrite history & 1 which more than 60 experts from all over the world are already working on," archaeologist Jacopo Tabolli told #ANSA in early November, describing "absolutely unique" treasure trove accompanied by incredible quantity of inscriptions in Etruscan & #Latin - shedding new light on how much the #Etruscans influenced the civilization that superseded & virtually wiped them out - as well as thousands of coins, votive offerings.
#Italy

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2023/06/22/san-casciano-bronzes-go-on-show-at-quirinale_a48904ad-be81-46c4-86a0-a4be68508d39.html

Today's poem:

Cypresses
- by DH Lawrence

https://allpoetry.com/Cypresses

#cypresses #etruscans #romans #vestiges #slander #remembrances #resonance #history #landscape #tuscany

Before #Rome, the main #civilization in northwest #Italian peninsula was the #Etruscans. The population were absorbed into Rome as citizens and brought the proto-Greek alphabet. This became Rome’s #Latin alphabet after it was reversed in order and direction.

They called themselves the #Rasenna. It’s easy to read their name if you read the proto-Greek letters right to left or in a mirror image.

#Histodon
#Writing
#Greek
#Alphabet
#History

I'm a professional #writer and #editor in #Tuscany, #Italy and write on #Medium about life in Italy, the #Etruscans, #Florence, #poetry and #language, my #animals, particularly my #alpacas, and also the #home, particularly #dark #interiors.

#LEPONTIC, the (almost) forgotten, written language of the #Celts

Long before the #Roman #Empire and #Caesar's conquest of #Gaul, #Celtic tribes living on the southern edge of the Alps, through contact with the #Etruscans, adopted the #Alphabet and adapted it to their own language, giving rise to the ‘#Lugano’ alphabet – also known as the ‘Lepontic’ alphabet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepontic_language
https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2018/10/the-oldest-writing-in-switzerland/

#Archaeology #Linguistics #Runes #Pagan #Druid #Druidry

Trail inspection today at "Antica Monterano", a ghost town abandoned in 1799, and built on the consecrated territory of the Etruscan civilization in Northern Lazio, Italy.

#lazio #italy #monterano #etruscans #rome #hiking #january #adventure

The 3rd new #ancient #history magazine I'm introducing is "The Road to #Rome", about the #Roman, #Byzantine, and #Etruscan #cultures, launching with 110 stories like:

- Succession of the #RomanEmpire

- The #Gallic Wars

- 9 facts about #JuliusCaesar

- #Spartacus was a real #gladiator

- #Commodus, the Mad #Emperor

- 2k yr old #Roman road discovery in #Britain

- #Etruscans prayed at #sacred hot springs

- #Sex in ancient Rome

- Ovid & Catullus, #poetry & #scandal

https://flipboard.com/@curiouscurator/the-road-to-rome-hsed05abz?from=share&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=curator_share

In many ways the #Etruscans are the key to understanding Western civilization.

"Discovery of ancient bronze statues in Italy may rewrite Etruscan and Roman history." -- https://www.npr.org/2022/12/03/1138904735/italy-ancient-bronze-statues-discovery-tuscany

#histodons #history @histodons

Today I took a virtual live tour of the Etruscan collection in the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam (still can't quite believe no one told me there is an archaeology museum on either of my visits to Amsterdam) so here's one of my photos from Villa Giulia, the National Etruscan Museum in Rome. This charming young child is depicted with the amulet that Etruscan children kept around their necks. #Etruscans #archaeology

The Origin and Legacy of the #Etruscans: A new study reports genome-wide data of ancient Italian individuals to trace the origins of the Etruscans and their contribution to later populations: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/newsfullview-news/article/the-origin-and-legacy-of-the-etruscans/ #Senckenberg #Archaeology