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A bucchero ware box with ram and bull decoration. Etruscan, 4th century BCE. (Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museums, Rome)

A bucchero mixing bowl or krater. Etruscan, 550 BCE. Height: 27 cm. The rim is decorated with six female heads while the main body has lions and sirens. (Metropolitan Museum of art, New York)

A bucchero jug or oinochoe. Etruscan, 580-560 BCE. From Tarquinia, central Italy. Height: 40 cm. (British Museum, London)

A dinner serving set in bucchero ware. Etruscan from Chiusi, Italy. 550-500 BCE (Art Institute of Chicago)

A gold fibula decorated with five lions (upper portion) and 50 ducks (lower portion) from the Etruscan Regoliini-Galassi Tomb at Cerveteri. 7th century BCE. (Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museums, Rome)

An example of the square stone tombs at the cemetery of Banditaccia at the Etruscan site of Cerveteri. The tombs were laid out in rows with streets between them. Mid-6th century BCE.

The Tomb of the Reliefs at the Etruscan site of Cerveteri. Last quarter, 4th century BCE.

Impression of a Babylonian blue chalcedony conical stamp seal from c. 700-550 BCE. On the base, beneath a crescent, a worshipper in a fringed robe stands facing the goddess of healing, Gula, who sits on her star-studded throne which...

The painted terracotta Sarcophagus of the Married Couple from the Etruscan site of Cerveteri. c. 530-520 BCE. Length: 1,9 m. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

Chris Stringer's hypothesis, depicted in a graph-model, of the evolution of several species of genus Homo over the last 2 million years (vertical axis), as published in Stringer, C. (2012). "What makes a modern human". Nature 485 (7396...