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A 2,500 - yr - old grave decorated with hopeful - red wall painting has been discovered at an ancient burying ground in Italy .
It was created by the Etruscans , a people who thrive in Italy during the heart of the first millennium B.C. but who were gradually curb and assimilated by theRomans .
A 2,500-year-old wall painting found in the Etruscan tomb.
The tomb comprise colorful paries painting depicting a miscellany of fit , such as workforce and women dancing beside a flutist , the Italian Ministry of Culture said in a translatedstatement . Another painting show a woman , maybe the at peace , beside two young men , while another scene illustrates a metallurgic workshop .
The workshop painting suggests the deceased ’s family were smith . " The inclusion of a singular scene of smithy in the paint decoration of one paries allows us to have a coup d’oeil of the economical reservoir of the wealth of this fellowship , which was evidently involve in metal management business,“Daniele Federico Maras , director of the National Archaeological Museum of Florence and leader of the squad that excavated the grave , told Live Science in an e-mail .
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One of the wall paintings found in the tomb; the team plans to use multispectral analysis to uncover more of it.
The mural with the music and dancing scene may depict the existent funeral of the deceased . Scenes like this " have been interpret by scholars as come to to the ceremony occurring at the funeral of the extremity of the fellowship , " Maras said .
The lack of inscriptions , human remains and grave trade good signal that the tomb had been looted . And the tomb itself is in rough shape — it sit beneath another grave that has already collapsed , the statement noted .
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The tomb is locate in the Tarquinia necropolis , about 45 geographical mile ( 72 klick ) northwest of Rome . " Around 6,500 tombs have been identify and classified at Tarquinia , and [ about ] 200 of them had painted decoration , " Maras said . " However , only several ten-spot have figurative ornamentation , with scene include banqueting , dancing , sports , myths and the underworld . "
The tomb was found in 2022 and was excavated and examined in contingent late . Analysis of the tomb is on-going , and the squad plan to use multispectral imaging technologies to test the picture and define which colors have been lost , the statement read .
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