Italian police seize Etruscan princesses’ treasures from suspected ‘tomb raiders’
Ancient beauty accessories, sarcophagi and urns recovered after illegal excavation in Umbria
Italian police have recovered a trove of funerary treasures, believed to have belonged to Etruscan princesses, that were illegally excavated from a vast underground tomb in the Umbria region.
The finds, which included eight urns, two sarcophagi – one containing the remains of a woman aged between 40 and 45 – and beauty accessories, originated from a hypogeum that has been traced to an influential Etruscan family who lived between 300BC and 100BC.
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