At the site they found artifacts dating back to the Hellenistic period of the third century BCE, including two sarcophagi, believed to be of Etruscan princesses, a burial trousseau complete with ...
The illegal dig was adjacent to another Etruscan burial site discovered by a farmer tilling his land in 2015, authorities said. They were tipped off by photographs of artifacts and the site that ...
Italian authorities have recovered precious 3rd century B.C. artifacts from an Etruscan necropolis looted by a couple of bungling tomb raiders in Umbria who stumbled across the haul on their land.
Italy Recovers Etruscan Artifacts Worth $8.5 Million Bound for Black Market ROME (AP) — Italian authorities announced Tuesday the seizure of an illegal excavation of an Etruscan burial site in ...