The Mystery of the Tuscan Hills is a personal travel account on how
to find the ancient Etruscan civilization in contemporary Italy.
The author is a practicing cardiologist who, at age 40, began
working at classical dig sites around the Mediterranean Sea,
toiling in the summer sun as a "grunt"-coupling that with study
trips over the past 25 years. The sites discussed and visited
include all phases of Etruscan history and culture, from the 9th
Century BC until the 3rd Century BC, when Roman might destroyed and
absorbed the society. However, enough remains to provide a lifetime
of study and travel opportunities. This monograph encompasses a
series of portraits, or snapshots, of the Etruscans-as the author
perceives them. It is not an encyclopedia of Etruscan sites and
cultural history, nor a detailed travel book of Tuscany. This book
will be surrounded on a bookshelf filled with elaborate
coffee-table tomes of the flowers, birds, villas and museums in
Tuscany, and traditional travel guides-most repeating the same
information. The Mystery of the Tuscan Hills reveals a Tuscany that
most travelers drive through or around, and view from a distance,
but rarely "see." Learning to understand the Etruscans will also
allow the traveler to get his hands around this exquisite space-one
of Earth's Edens. This book is an attempt to better understand the
Etruscan mind. Just as a great painter exposes the inner-self of
the subject on the canvas, the successful biographer must explore
the psyche of his subject, and not simply present a dry, scientific
history of dates, battles and plagues. This monograph, as it
rambles through Etruria (Tuscany), will paint a portrait of the
Etruscans as we understandthem in the 21st Century-not a simple
task, since their written language has defied translation.
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