The Villanovan culture, the earliest phase of the Etruscan civilization, was the first Iron Age society in Italy.

Found in Italy it was probably and Etruscan copy of a Greek original or ... The jug itself is of black-glazed pottery and although an everyday item it still shows a careful degree of attention ...

there were just a few pieces of pottery left inside, but the painted walls are still mostly intact. The funerary art that adorns the tomb includes various scenes of Etruscan life and culture ...

Within a large Etruscan necropolis in Tarquinia ... only a few pieces of pottery were left because looters had taken the rest. Fortunately, the wall paintings were mostly intact.