Detail of the inscription on the stele (courtesy Mugello Valley Project) (click to enlarge) Over the coming months, according to SMU, researchers with the University of Florence will be examining and ...

An ancient tablet recently unearthed in Tuscany has revealed its first secret: the engraved name of a goddess linked to fertility. The 500-pound stone slab, or stele, was unearthed earlier this year ...

Archaeologists translating a very rare inscription on an ancient Etruscan temple stone have discovered the name Uni—an important female goddess. The discovery indicates that Uni—a divinity of ...

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered what may be a rare sacred text in the Etruscan language that is likely to yield rich details about Etruscan worship of a god or goddess. The lengthy text is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This could change our understanding of the mysterious Etruscan civilization in Italy. The ancient Etruscan civilization, whose great cities dotted the west coast of Italy between 2800 and 2400 years ...

The Etruscans occupied an area north of Rome: their homelands lay in central Italy, between the Arno and the Tiber Rivers. This homeland is known as Etruria and it roughly corresponds to the ...

This civilization flourished on the territory which is nowadays central Italy (from Po River to Naples) and besides the Greek one, was the most influential for Romans. The Etruscans are still shrouded ...