A GIANT ETRUSCAN Necropolis Revealed!
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- The Ancient Romans didn't write the nicest things about the Etruscans, but their opinion was rather biased towards this relatively sophisticated culture sharing the Italian Peninsular, that was often in conflict with them for land and power. Although the Etruscans are thought to have been descended from the local Iron Age Villanovan culture, some researchers think their origins lie elsewhere, especially considering their unusual language which is still not well understood by scholars.
In this video I discuss the Etruscan Necropolis of Banditaccia, a monumental complex of one thousands tombs, only a fraction of which is open to the public. This city of the dead is laid out in a grid system and is full of one of the earliest type of Etruscan tombs, giant stone and earthen mounds called tumuli. With elaborately decorated tombs, rich grave goods and stunning architecture, the Necropolis of Banditaccia has helped scholars to learn more about the everyday life and funerary rituals of the Etruscans. I'm particularly interested in these tombs because they make use of some cyclopean masonry, a type of construction that also exists on a megalithic scale in many areas on the Italian Peninsula. Come and explore with me!
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00:00 Introduction
01:07 Etruscan Mysteries
02:57 A City With Many Names
05:32 The Necropolis of Banditaccia
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Topics found nowhere else on UA-cam, delivered with academic clarity and panache. Well done.
Fox out.
Ah Fox! Thank you soooo much :)
I always enjoy hearing more about the Etruscans. One of my favorites. They are so mysterious to me. Thanks for sharing your research Laura!
Thanks Barry! The more I read about them, the more interested I become!
@@MegalithHunter They are fascinating.
As usual you have left me hanging for more exciting facts in future video's, keep up the fascinating work! 👏
Happy you enjoyed it!
The Gold plates are amazing. Such mystery, great delivery. So much research very much appreciated! 💖
I didn’t have time to visit Pyrgi on my last trip but really want to go there!
I'm definitely looking forward to future videos on the Etruscans! The sarcophagus of the spouses is so interesting!
woohoo! 1st comment! another gold star🤣👍🎶 anyway, yes, please! more on the Etruscans! i've often wondered what their civilization would've become if the Romans hadn't subjugated them. they seemed to have a lot going for them.
thanks, Laura! good stuff, my friend!
First comment yessss! I can make tons of videos on them, there's just sooo much! Really enjoy learning more about them.
@@MegalithHunter great! i will definitely be watching for those. fascinating culture👍cheers🍺
Superb newscast.
Thanks Ziggy! Appreciate the support.
Very interesting, Etruria is the same area of ancient Rome .Ancient Romans invented concrete the arch and the barrel vault,
so their architecture was grandiose in relation to the Greek post and beam construction.
Wonderful questions to explore.
I love exploring them all!
My mother was very interested in the Etruscans and I went with her on one of her bus group trips to northern Italy (from Germany). Since she isn't there anymore I kinda promised on keeping up with it and finding out for here so I'm looking forward to any more information you find out. Thank you Laura!
Ah that’s lovely Maren. Am planning to keep researching them and to visit some more sites.
@@MegalithHunter thank you Laura, looking forward to it!
I'm very glad that you mentioned Cerveteri that personally find it interesting interesting with it's incredible Acropolis, practically the city of the dead, were you can walk almost the whole day fully immersed in the past. I love to walk there the latest possible when there are few people there but also to enjoy the colours and the silence. In truth I love this place. You did again a great job 👍 👏
I have to say, it's a very peaceful place with lots of lovely kitties running around! When I went it was almost empty so really enjoyed having the place to myself for a short while.
Never heard of that culture before. Thanks ❤️🙏 Looks like a very similar architecture to what is seen in Peru, Greece, etc, with the trapezoidal doors with the big beams and the polygonal stone work. Best of luck with the channel 🗿
Yes does seem to be reminiscent of other architecture in different places! Thanks for watching and supporting!
Here are another couple of videos I did on the Etruscans if you are interested in this particular culture:
Did The Etruscans Build Italy's Cyclopean Walls?
ua-cam.com/video/pUKG52KbRiY/v-deo.html
Party Like An Etruscan Woman
ua-cam.com/video/pIV1qaOJ5Qw/v-deo.html
Where Did The Enigmatic Etruscans Come From?
ua-cam.com/video/55RXq86JTRU/v-deo.html
Another site to add to my list. Hopefully I'm off to the Orkney's next November. More Etruscan news would be great.
Ah Orkney is very much on my list too!
Always illuminating - thank you !!
Thanks Michael 😀
Very interesting!!!
Thanks Sandi! Happy you enjoyed it. More on the Etruscans to follow!
I fell in love 😍
"Pini presso una Catacomba" now playing in my head.
video on origin of the sumerians please
Excellent informative video.
Thanks Clifford!
Thank you for this video. Someone has written that it seems as if the Etruscans committed collective suicide. Why would people do that? I think that the Etruscans were survivors from Atlantis. Plato writes about the Atlanteans who are fighting against the Greek and at the other side of the Mediterranean with Egypt. During this fight Atlantis sank under the waves. So many Atlanteans remained on the mainland between the gulf of Biscayan and Greece. They must have flocked together in some areas. Atlantis disappeared under waves due to a recurring natural disaster that is regularly caused by the ninth planet in our solar system. Ancient books tell us about this recurring disaster. And the Etruscans knew also about this. They also knew that this disaster causes a bombardment of meteors so they made shelters with a strong roof. That planet was expected again and they all were afraid. They did not know that the crossing of planet 9 in the year 44 BCE would not do any harm to our planet. To learn much more about planet 9, the recurring flood cycle and its timeline, the re-creation of civilizations and ancient high technology, read the e-book: "Planet 9 = Nibiru". It can be read on any computer, tablet or smartphone. Search: invisible nibiru 9
Why havn't the Cyclopean walls been dug up, then the debris under them dated? This is how its done to get an idea of how old a structure is, correct? Great video and thanks for the hard work and I know I should have watched this when it came out. But sometimes I miss them thru the cracks and they get brought back up later. Chris
You could also date the debris between the two different types of construction, surely there are animal or vegetable material that could be found and dated at every one of those walls? Or is there a specific reason why it hasn't been done. This is the same problem that is at Puma Punku, the government will not allow the site to be fully excavated or any new dates done. Why? Recently they found a void with ground penetrating radar at Pumu Punku and excavated it and found a structure but refuse to date it. This bugs me so much, when I know they use this type of dating for many things. This is how they dated Gobekli Tepe and all the other Tepe's. Chris
As I was watching the video, Sardinia came to mind (how they laid out their settlements and also some similarities with triangular entrances to their underground wells). It is pretty mind boggling how they mixed construction techniques (cyclopean wall + concrete + other masonry) into the tombs. When I visited Delphi I noticed the same but the cyclopean walls were on lower parts of the structures, implying they were older. I wonder why the Romans didn't like the Etruscans- maybe for being black magicians? I guess that could be a little scary/threatening. The oriental features I also notice in many Greek statues/artwork. Some of Etruscan statues actually appear elvish. Sardinian and Maltese statuettes also have some of these features. I find if fascinating.
In many, if not most, of these Etruscan necropolis, are the lower, and thus oldest building blocks better made as well as heaviest? This must be a recurring puzzle to archeologists, right?
They seem to be but I haven’t found any academic paper that regards it as strange. Seems strange to me though! Which is why MegalithHunter is on the case 😂😃
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🇮🇹🤔The Etruscans a mysterious people, with uncertain origins and an incomprehensible language? Not anymore. While knowledge of the language is now very advanced, a very recent international study has also demolished the last Etruscan myth, that is the origin from the East. In fact, through the examination of ancient DNA it was shown that the Etruscans shared the genetic profile of the Latins and that a large part of their genome derived from ancestors from the Eurasian steppe during the Bronze Age.
The study published in "Science Advances" was coordinated by the Universities of Florence, Jena and Tübingen and involved researchers from Italy (in addition to the University of Florence, University of Siena, University of Ferrara, Museum of Civilization in Rome), Germany, United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom. The research sheds light on the origin and heritage of the Etruscans thanks to the analysis on the genome of 82 individuals from Etruria and southern Italy, who lived between 800 BC. and 1000 AD.
Although archaeologists have long believed that the Etruscans had a local origin and some research on ancient DNA, in the past, also supported this hypothesis only with this new study, which investigates complete genomes for the first time, it was possible to give definitive answers on the origin of this population. The genomic information derived from an extended sampling over a period of almost two thousand years and twelve archaeological sites, therefore excludes a recent movement of populations from Anatolia.
However, the study of DNA, paradoxically, complicates the question of the language of the Etruscans. Considering that groups linked to the steppe were probably responsible for the spread of Indo-European languages, the persistence of a non-Indo-European Etruscan language in Etruria, the researchers explain in the article in "Science Advances", is a phenomenon that will require further archaeological investigation. historical, linguistic and genetic: "This linguistic persistence, combined with a genetic turnover, challenges the thesis that genes are equal to languages - says David Caramelli, professor of Anthropology at the University of Florence - and suggests a more complex scenario that could have involved the assimilation of the first Italic peoples by the community
Etruscan linguistics, perhaps during a prolonged period of mixing in the second millennium BC ".
At the turn of the Iron Age and the period of Republican Rome, the Etruscan genetic heritage remained the same for at least 800 years. The study on the genetic heritage was extended chronologically by noting that during the subsequent Roman imperial period, central Italy underwent a large-scale genetic change, resulting from the mixture with the populations of the eastern Mediterranean, which probably included slaves and soldiers. transferred through the Roman Empire.
Looking at the more recent Early Middle Ages, researchers have instead identified ancestors from northern Europe that spread throughout the Italian peninsula following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. These results suggest that i
Germanic migrants, including individuals associated with the newly established Longobard Kingdom, may have left an impact
traceable to the genetic landscape of central Italy.
In the regions of Tuscany, Lazio and Basilicata there is continuity in the genetic heritage of the population between the Alto
Middle Ages and today. This data suggests that the main genetic pool of present-day people in central and southern Italy was largely formed at least 1000 years ago. Although more ancient DNA data from all over Italy needs to be obtained to support this hypothesis, ancestry changes in Tuscany and northern Lazio similar to those reported for the city of Rome and its surroundings suggest that historical events during the first millennium AD. have had an important impact on genetic transformations in much of the Italian peninsula.
Thanks Alessio. Another interesting paper to read on the Etruscans!
POLIGONAL WALLS? Wow, that's a term that was first introduced by Alternative Archeology.
Nice to see mainstream Archeology learning something from armature Archeologists. Though I think 60% of what Alternative Archeology says is wrong. It is eyebrow raising that one megalithic culture used the meter exactly as a unit of measure. Actually, extremely bizarre. Surprised that you didn't bother to mention the "coincidence" but just passed over it like it was totally normal for megalithic cultures to use the modern "Meter" as well.
I'm wondering if their language was colbren
Unë jam në gjak
Divination is obviously of Babylonian origin.
Hundreds of clay models, similar to the liver model of Piacenza, have been discovered in the ruins of Babylon and Mesopotamia.
The Bible mentions the practice of divination by the Babylonians in Ezekiel 21:21.
"For the king of Babylon stops to use divination at the fork in the road, where the two roads branch off. He shakes the arrows. He consults his idols;* he examines the liver."
My goodness is she beautiful
Unë jam gjaksi a të hapa tata e lan,klan erë kish ena, e vë kutum atë.Arbaniti
Unë jam gjak,ati(t'ata) të hap erë kish ena kutum brenda e shtie.questo sono parole dal lingua albaneze quando morte un persone del familie arbaniti
Unë jam gjaksi aga a të hapa.tata e lan,qan(klan) e vë kutum atë.lungua albaneze
Use Slavic (Serbian) to translate Etruscan.... But read it backwards. I wonder why you are not using Slavic to try to decipher what it says
Are worlds in Albanian language.arbaniti
English etruscan turkish
good ii iyi
to be am im-um
honest ak ak/dürüst
elder brother aga aga
ancestor ataapa atası
grandfather tata deda
boy elan olan
creed/nation klan uklan
person/soldier er er/kişi
person kisi kişi
now ena an
all heva hep
box kutum kutu
day tin tan
Unë jam gjak ,aga,atë hapa,ati,t'at e lan,qan,klan,er kish Ena e vë kutum atë,tij thua is worlds from language albanian.questo Sonoi parole quando morte un persone del familie arbaniti
@@user-zj4en3mp2m the turkuc language has been proven to be at least 9000 years old, possibly 30.000 + if the latest anthropologycal work carried out in America and Siberia (2019) anything to go by, the turkic languages are divided into two groups, Uralic(anything west of the Ural mountain range in Siberia) and Altaic (anything east of the Altai mountain range in Siberia), the Albanian language belongs to the Uralian branch of that tree, the Trojans, as well as other civilisations in Asia minor and the Balkans, such as the Hittites, the Lyceans, the Phrygs, the Sumerians amongst others, all came from Siberia and the Caucuses and spoke Uraltaic - Turkic without exception, Etruscans too referred to themselves as "R'Asenna" confirming their origins from the Caspian sea region, the modern Albanian language descends from the Trojans (Uralian), the Romans often referred to the Etruscans as "Turanian or Turchi and also referred to the Trojans as" Turchi " and vice versa.
some of my sources :
Fritz Neumann (Trojans)
Mario Alinei (Etruscans)
George Dumeznil(Hittites)
Leonard King (Sumerians)
Those "cart ruts" are always kind of annoying, starting with their name. Even religious artifacts have some aspect of utility or purpose to them but the cart ruts seem very random. Perhaps separation lines between properties? But that doesn't seem to make too much sense either. Anyway, Etruscans. Were they not connected with the Minoans?
Technically no connection but they both spoke a non-Indo-European language and there are other similarities between them so it makes me wonder!
We see you too much. Hide and tell the info