The Etruscans ruled much of Italy before Rome, and their language was long a puzzle.
In Scott-Elliot's scheme, the Etruscans descend from the Akkadians, the Atlantean race that spread east from the Mediterranean.
The early Etruscans, the Phœnicians, including the Carthaginians and the Shumero-Akkads, were branches of this race, while the Basques of to-day have probably more of the Akkadian than of any other blood which flows in their veins.
On The Oldest Son of Noah he calls them "that mysterious people" whose bronze implements agreed exactly in style with those he thought came from Atlantis, and he reports Isaac Taylor's paper on Etruscan numerals: two dice found in a tomb carried words instead of pips, and those words matched the first six numbers of the Altaic branch of the Turanian languages.
The oldest son of Noah sums this up as placing the Etruscans in the Turanian family.
Etruscan vaults are of two kinds.
The Story of Atlantis and Karnak both note that this kind of arch is identical in Central America, in the oldest buildings of Greece and in Etruscan remains.
The Bronze Age in Europe adds that Etruscan bronzes contained lead, unlike the pure bronzes the Phoenicians traded to the north, and that the Etruscans knew iron.
On The Egyptian Colony, Etruscan gold jewellery is ranked with the Egyptian and Greek as the finest of the ancients.
On The antiquity of some of our great inventions, Donnelly notes that divination was the "ars Etrusca", and that the Etruscans set their temples squarely to the cardinal points, as did the Egyptians, the Mexicans and the Mound Builders.
The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New finds the Etruscan belief that evil spirits fought over the dead among the Mosquito Indians, and The Irish Colonies from Atlantis compares the Irish wake with the funeral feasts of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans.
Poseidon names Nethuns as the Etruscan sea god, later merged with Poseidon and Neptune.
The Sea Peoples and the Philistines suggests that the Tjeker may have been related to the Trojans or the Etruscans of Italy.
The name even reaches the animals: How the Bear Lost His Tail traces cave bears and brown bears back to the Etruscan bear, Ursus etruscus.
For every page I tagged with Etruscans, see the Etruscans tag archive.
The “false arch”—horizontal courses of stone, each slightly overlapping the other—is found to be identical in Central America, in the oldest buildings of Greece, and in Etruscan remains.
Colonized Levant, Etruscans, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Basques.
The Etruscans set their temples squarely with the cardinal points of the compass; so did the Egyptians, the Mexicans, and the Mound Builders of America.
That mysterious people, the Etruscans, who inhabited part of Italy, and whose bronze implements agreed exactly in style and workmanship with those which we think were derived from Atlantis, were, it is now claimed, a branch of the Turanian family.
"At a recent meeting of the English Philological Society great interest was excited by a paper on Etruscan Numerals, by the Rev.
He stated that the long-sought key to the Etruscan language had at last been discovered.
Guided by this clew, it was easy to prove that the grammar and vocabulary of the 3000 Etruscan inscriptions were also Altaic.
The Etruscan mythology proved to be essentially the same as that of the Kalevala, the great Finnic epic."
If we concede that the Jews were also a branch of the Hamitic stock, then we have, firstly, a Semitic stock, the Turanian, embracing the Etruscans, the Finns, the Tartars, the Mongols, the Chinese, and Japanese; secondly, a Hamitic family, "the sunburnt" race--a red race--including the Cushites, Phœnicians, Egyptians, Hebrews, Berbers, etc.; and, thirdly, a Japhetic or whiter stock, embracing the Greeks, Italians, Celts, Goths, and the men who wrote Sanscrit-in other words, the entire Aryan family.
"The Irish keen (caoine), or the lament over the dead, may still be heard in Algeria and Upper Egypt, even as Herodotus heard it chanted by the Libyan women." The same practice existed among the Egyptians, Etruscans, and Romans.
The Irish wakes are identical with the funeral feasts of the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans.
To see gold jewellery of the highest order, the student should examine that of the ancients, such as the Egyptian, Greek, and Etruscan."
The same form of arch is found among the ruins of that interesting people, the Etruscans.
"Etruscan vaults are of two kinds.
383.) He says, "It seems surprising that the nearest neighbors of the Phœnicians--the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and the Romans--should have manufactured plumbiferous bronzes, while the Phœnicians carried to the people of the North only pure bronzes without the alloy of lead.
The Etruscans, moreover, were acquainted with the use of iron as well as the Phœnicians, and it has already been seen that the composition of their bronzes is different, since it contains lead, which is entirely a stranger to our bronze epoch.
We must look, then, beyond both the Etruscans and Phœnicians in attempting to identify the commerce of the Bronze Age of our palafittes.
And as this commerce could not, as we have seen, have been carried on by the Romans, Greeks, Etruscans, or Phœnicians, because their civilizations flourished during the Iron Age, to which this age of bronze was anterior, where then are we to look for a great maritime and commercial people, who carried vast quantities of copper, tin, and bronze (unalloyed by the lead of the south of Europe) to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, England, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy?
If the bronze implements of Europe had been derived from the Phœnicians, Greeks, Etruscans, or Romans, the nearer we approached the site of those nations the greater should be the number of bronze weapons we would find; but the reverse is the case.
What race was there, other than the people of Atlantis, that existed before the Iron Age-before the Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Phœnician--that was civilized, that worked in metals, that carried on a commerce with all parts of Europe?
valley of the Nile, and we find that the Egyptian hieroglyphic for n was the serpent, ; the Pelasgian n was ; the Arcadian, ; the Etruscan, .
One of the Etruscan signs for b was , while the Pelasgian b was represented
In the oldest known form of the Phœnician alphabet, that found on the Moab stone, we find in the same way but one sign to express the d and t. D does not occur on the Etruscan monuments, t being used in its place.
The Etruscan belief that evil spirits strove for the possession of the dead was found among the Mosquito Indians.
The "false arch"—horizontal courses of stone, each slightly overlapping the other—is found to be identical in Central America, in the oldest buildings of Greece, and in Etruscan remains.
The early Etruscans, the Phœnicians, including the Carthaginians and the Shumero-Akkads, were branches of this race, while the Basques of to-day have probably more of the Akkadian than of any other blood which flows in their veins.
Britannica gives tentative identifications for six of the Sea Peoples: the Ekwesh as Bronze Age Greeks (Achaeans), the Teresh as Tyrrhenians, "ancestors of the Etruscans," the Luka, the Sherden, the Shekelesh and the Peleset.
Britannica links the Etruscans to the Teresh, not the Tjeker.
The other is the long history of bears themselves, going back to the Etruscan bear.
Both the cave bear and the brown bear are thought to come from the Etruscan bear (Ursus etruscus), which lived in Eurasia in the Early Pleistocene, from about 2.2 million to about 1.4 to 1.2 million years ago.
Nethuns: the Etruscan equivalent, later merged with Poseidon and Neptune.
The Etruscans, whose bronze artifacts resemble those from Atlantis, are now believed to be part of the Turanian family.
Isaac Taylor's discovery of Etruscan numerals matching the Altaic branch of the Turanian languages supports this connection.