Italy recovers Etruscan artefacts worth €8 million bound for black market

Italian authorities are investigating two people for suspected theft of archaeological finds from the Etruscan era worth €8 million.

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00:32The recovery of the Etruscan general contexts of the city of La Bieve

00:36also tells us something more.

00:39It reminds us of the relevance of the archaeological, cultural and historical and artistic heritage

00:44of the Etruscan region throughout the Italian territory.

00:47The more than 50 recovered elements of the Funic Corridor,

00:50the sarcophagi, the auto-monoliths,

00:53offer a new opportunity to immerse oneself in the fascinating Etruscan region

00:58and once again tell a fragment, a fundamental fragment,

01:04of the complex stratification of the societies that over the millennia

01:09have animated the history of Italy

01:11and have contributed to the formation of our national identity.