{"id":8497,"date":"2014-05-27T15:08:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T05:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=8497"},"modified":"2014-05-27T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T05:08:52","slug":"etruscan-tomb-with-female-aristocrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/news\/etruscan-tomb-with-female-aristocrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Etruscan tomb with female aristocrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/etruscan-tomb-L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8500\" alt=\"etruscan-tomb-L\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/etruscan-tomb-L.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/etruscan-tomb-L.jpg 460w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/etruscan-tomb-L-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archaeoloy In a tomb in Tarquinia northwest of the Italian capital of Rome, archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery: Behind a stone shield, they found a vaulted tomb full of artefacts of the relatively unknown Etruscan civilisation. The tomb contained an 2,600-year-old skeleton, a huge number of funereal gifts, and the ashes of another human being.<\/p>\n<p>The skeleton had a spear on its chest, and the archaeologists first thought that the dead person was a warrior prince. But analyses of the bones revealed that it was a 35-40-year-old woman \u2013 probably an aristocrat. The ashes on the stone bed belong to a man, so the tomb may be the resting place of a married couple.<\/p>\n<p>The archaeologists are thrilled, as they rarely find intact Etruscan tombs. These ancient people, who lived in northern Italy until 800 BC, did not leave written sources of any kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeoloy In a tomb in Tarquinia northwest of the Italian capital of Rome, archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery: Behind a stone shield, they found a vaulted tomb full of artefacts of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8502,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions\/8502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}