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In previous posts, we went on a quest to understand the origins of the mysterious Etruscans. The current thinking is that Etruscans came from nowhere else but Italy. And modern historians support the theory that prosperous Villanovans who occupied parts of Italy 3,200 years ago, are ancestral to Etruscans. But who are the Villanovans?
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Just where did the Etruscans come from? The Etruscans’ origin story is a problem for the ages, literally. A 2,500-year debate among ancient historians carries on to this day among modern scholars. Did they come from Turkey or Greece? Or were they aboriginal to Italy? The lack of Etruscan written materials deepens the mystery…..
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Long before there were Romans in Italy, an ancient people, the Etruscans, wielded power across the land. This civilization was already well advanced and trading with Greeks and Phoenicians in the 8th century BCE when Romulus and Remus were just striplings playing bandit games, and Rome was nothing more than a collection of shepherd shacks.
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