Why We Still Cannot Read Etruscan

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The Rosetta Stone had cracked Egyptian; here was the same gift for Etruscan, in gold, from around 500 BCE. So we can read every surviving Etruscan text aloud, confidently, including the long ones. Around twelve or thirteen thousand Etruscan inscriptions survive.

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