Show Etruscan Study Planned The Etruscans ns pre J predecessors ors ce of theRoman the Roman civilization cI In the Italian pen pen- penInsula peninsula peninsula arc are to have hl their little known little history Investigated by a group of Italian scholars who organized for thIs purpose nt at a n national congress recently recently held held at Milan Pres Pres- Present Pres- Pres Present Present ent knowledge of the Etruscan race and Its culture Is very ery fragmentary thou though h they had n a high civilization and proud cities In Italy vh when n Rome nome waS a n mere collection of or huts beside belde the lie Tiber Their Influence was vas strong strong- strongly strongly ly Iy felt In the tho days of the early arly republic republic republic lic and survivals sun of their rell religion lon probably hell held In the cults of Rome nome to the very end of or paganism It Is he- he be believed by hy one of the Italian scholars Il Interested In the he movement that the famous burled buried city of Pompeii was originally an nn Etruscan settlement |