Discovery of bronzes rewrites Italy’s Etruscan-Roman history

Panoramic view of San Casicano dei Bagni in Italy, taken in June 2015. An archaeological dig in the township near Siena has revealed about two dozen bronze figurines that promise to reshape what we know about Etruscan and Roman history. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit LigaDue. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Panoramic view of San Casicano dei Bagni in Italy, taken in June 2015. An archaeological dig in the township near Siena has revealed about two dozen bronze figurines that promise to reshape what we know about Etruscan and Roman history. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit LigaDue. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Panoramic view of San Casicano dei Bagni in Italy, taken in June 2015. An archaeological dig in the township near Siena has revealed about two dozen bronze figurines that promise to reshape what we know about Etruscan and Roman history. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit LigaDue. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

ROME (AP) – Italian authorities on November 8 announced the extraordinary discovery of 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring and said the find will “rewrite history” about the transition from the Etruscan civilization to the Roman Empire. The discovery, in the sacred baths of the San Casciano dei Bagni archaeological dig near Siena, is one of the most significant ever in the Mediterranean and certainly the most important since the 1972 underwater discovery of the famed Riace bronze warriors, said Massimo Osanna, the Culture Ministry’s director of museums.

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