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Show Centuries Unable to Dim Laurel Wreath Laurel wreaths should be Immortal, and it is appropriate that a lanrel wreath recovered from an Etruscan tomb over 2,000 years old should still be green. Who its hero was we cannot tell. His skeleton was wrapped in veils of white and blue. There were leather objects whose purpose is nnknown. ornamented with geometrical designs, purses containing glass beads, belts with copper clasps and buckles, and the lanre! wreath, but no name. The tomb Is one of a great number at Vulci, in Tuscany, Italy, whose existence was first discovered a bun dred years ago. The wife of Napoleon's Napole-on's brother, Luclen, was watchlnu a yoke of oxen plowing In a field when thoy suddenly disappeared, and It was found they had broken through into an Etruscan tomb. Over 6,000 tombs were opened In the next quar ter of a century, their contents being distributed over Europe, after which the tombs were filled up. |