etruscans

[Sile]

latest on how the etruscans arrived in Italy

http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2010/07/etruscan-entry-into-italy.html

[Yetos]

sorry I tottaly disagree,

Etruscans moved from west from Thyrrenian sea and not from adrias

Greeks recogns them and their cities in west part and not in East,

means that Pyrgi must be a first area of arrival and not around Venice,

[himagain]

The only example of the written language of the Etruscans was, I understand, found on linen mummy wrappings in Egypt. A lucky turn of fate.

[Taranis]

The only example of the written language of the Etruscans was, I understand, found on linen mummy wrappings in Egypt. A lucky turn of fate.

Well, the peculiar part about these mummy wrappings is that it was inscription on linen. There have been other Etruscan inscriptions found, but most of these have been on metal objects (such as the Pyrgi tablets).

[julia90]

That theory is interesting.. it would explain why retians were with etruscan origins..
But the question is: on their possible route by the adriatic, did they left colonies on dalmatians, epiro, greece coasts?

[adamo]

If the Etruscans are linked to the pyrgi tablets and first arrived in Italy via the famous Tyrrhenian Sea near pyrgi or Tarquinia....does that not link them to Phrygians from Anatolia? If this is a valid link and not just a false linguistic one, it would place the Phrygians as a Mesopotamian or Hittite J2 people indigenous ( calling a homeland) to the Middle East. It would also be logical since the Etruscans are linked to the nearby lydians of Anatolia, according to HerodotusHerodotus