Book description
The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development…
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1 author picked The Etruscan World as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a rich, encyclopedic-like collection of brief chapters about various aspects of Etruscan culture by all the major scholars (60!) in the field. If you are looking to gain access to Etruscan civilization by randomly reading about particular aspects—from art (the evidence of the earliest portraiture) to women’s lives to sport to engineering to trading contacts—then this is the book for you. All of the chapters are written very accessibly, and—while short—they are packed with information and helpful suggestions for further reading.
From Sinclair's list on the ancient, “mysterious” Etruscans.
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