Etruscan Places is a historical and anthropological guide into the world of the Etruscans
people. The Etruscans as everyone knows were the people who occupied the middle of Italy in
early Roman days and whom the Romans in their usual neighbourly fashion wiped out entirely in
order to make room for Rome with a very big R. They couldn't have wiped them all out there
were too many of them. But they did wipe out the Etruscan existence as a nation and a people.
However this seems to be the inevitable result of expansion with a big E which is the sole
raison d'étre of people like the Romans. The main source of information we have today about the
Etruscan way of life is the artifacts found in their tombs which forms the focus for this
book.
