Show etruscan study planned the etruscans Etrus cans predecessors of the roman civilization in the italian peninsula are to have their little known history investigated by a group of italian scholars who organized lor for this purpose at a national etruscan congress recently held at milan present knowledge of the etruscan race and its culture Is very fragmentary though they had a high civilization and proud cities in italy when rome was a mere collection of huts beside the tiber their influence was strongly felt in the days of the early republic and survivals of their religion probably held in the cults of rome to the very end of paganism it Is believed by one of the italian scholars interested in the movement that the famous burled buried city of pompeii was originally an etruscan settlement |