Recent DNA analyzes confirm these enigmatic Romans did not originate from the Near East but from the Italian peninsula.
Archaeologists have unearthed an Etruscan tomb (an ancient Italian branch) in a small town about 80km northwest of Rome.
Archaeologists in central Italy have unearthed two bronze statues of women and many other rare artifacts of the Etruscan civilization dating back 2,500 years.
The Etruscan civilization pyramid was discovered by a group of American and Italian archaeologists under a cellar in the city of Orvieto, central Italy.