Monday 17 October 2022

ETRUSCAN TOMB EXCAVATION SURFACED ANCIENT GREEK CUP

 

                                                      Euboic drinking cup 


Archaeologists in Italy recently uncovered ten remarkable Etruscan tombs in the Monterozzi necropolis. where found ancient Greek artifacts such as an Euboic drinking cup.

Carried out in what the archaeologists called an "emergency campaign" to save the complex the finds date back to between the Villanovan and Archaic periods 8th to 5th centuries BC. 

They are located just a few meters from the Tomb of the Augers.  After the first restoration work was completed on the objects found there, some of the spectacular discoveries made in one of the tombs was finally revealed. 

The Soprintendenza dell Belle Arti Paesagio Erturia Meridionale the government authority in charge of the archaeological excavations was necessary to show up a series of cavities that had opened as a result of excessive plowing on private land. 

Since the area was adjacent to an already-known archaeological site, measures were taken as soon as possible to share the area.


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