5 Fascinating Facts About Etruscans

The terracotta Winged Horses of Tarquinia (4th century BCE) were found at the site of the Ara della Regina (Queen's Altar) in the Etruscan Acropolis of Tarchna. Tarquinia, Italy.

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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