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When the Romans vanquished the highly cultivated Etruscan people who ruled central Italy before them, they worked hard to expunge their memory. But this still mysterious culture finds an eloquent ...

The National Etruscan Museum is a museum of the Etruscan civilization, housed in the Villa Giulia in Rome. The villa was built for pope Julius III, for whom it was named. It remained in papal property ...

Despite being one of the best museums in Rome, Villa Giulia only attracts a fraction of the visitors it deserves. Those who make the journey through the gardens of the Villa Borghese are rewarded with ...

The theft of precious ornaments from the Castellani jewelry collection at the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome, on the eve of Easter in 2013, was the stuff of the edgiest heist movie.