That's an interesting story about the Etruscan tomb.
I hadn't been following the discovery closely, but I had seen previous announcements of the tomb of an "Etruscan prince" and I had seen the hopeful identification with Tarquinius Priscus. (I mean, if Richard III can turn up in a car park, anything's possible these days.) This was the first I'd seen of the correct sexual classification of the remains. I'd like there to be other burial sites that can be examined for comparison—were Etruscan women buried with a wider range of grave goods than scholarship has generally been crediting? Etc.—but I don't know enough about the state of the field. I was primarily familiar with tomb paintings and sarcophagi.
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I hadn't been following the discovery closely, but I had seen previous announcements of the tomb of an "Etruscan prince" and I had seen the hopeful identification with Tarquinius Priscus. (I mean, if Richard III can turn up in a car park, anything's possible these days.) This was the first I'd seen of the correct sexual classification of the remains. I'd like there to be other burial sites that can be examined for comparison—were Etruscan women buried with a wider range of grave goods than scholarship has generally been crediting? Etc.—but I don't know enough about the state of the field. I was primarily familiar with tomb paintings and sarcophagi.