Etruscan art is much livelier and more graceful than Roman art. Well worth a quick search, or much better, a museum visit.
The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text
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Re: The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see, you are right, but I was answering to a more general point made by OP, that if those who speak your language arrived late, you could still have a connection with those who lived there before.
Culture and genetics are not necessarily related. Unless they still happen to speak Etruscan, sharing a little DNA with ancient Etruscans doesn't make them "Etruscan".
Toponyms often survive after a new language fully replaces the language of a people.
BTW Serbia is not really "north" in the Balkans. But still, it's pretty far away: on the opposite side of the Adriatic see and of the entire Italian peninsula (etruria is on the tyrrhenian coast)
Re: The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
the Veneti (ancestors to modern Slavs) lived around Veneto while the Etruscans lived in Tuscany. Not that there was not a lot more mixing and migrating over the years, but still.
> the Veneti (ancestors to modern Slavs) lived around Veneto This is inaccurate. The ancestors of the Slavs spring, according to the consensus view, from around where Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus meet. So, very far from Venice, let alone central Italy. We have attestations of the language that was actually spoken around the Venetic region[0], it is not Slavic. Why the early Slavs were often labeled with an ethnonym r…
my source was also wikipedia; let's settle this by you changing wikipedia and making your changes stick. see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula_Veneti#Roman_historica...