The mysterious Etruscans in the British Museum
Some things make me very cross. Here’s one of them. It may not mean much to you.
The British Museum puts the Etruscans under ‘Roman’.
Okay, let’s explain. The Etruscans were the original inhabitants of much of Italy – before the Romans. They had a culture which was much more friendly to women (Rome was notoriously misogynistic), which produced brilliant art, which welcomed immigrants from Greece and Phoenicia, and which was highly literate (though we have only a few words of their language).
The Romans destroyed the Etruscans. They stole bits of Etruscan culture but they destroyed Etruscan society.
So it strikes me that …read more
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