Etruscans
The Etruscans were an ancient Italic people whose urban civilization flourished in central Italy from roughly the 9th to the 1st century BCE. Speaking a non-Indo-European language and organized in autonomous city-states, they developed distinctive art, religion, and political institutions that strongly influenced neighboring Rome. Their culture was progressively absorbed into the Roman Republic by the late first millennium BCE, yet remains visible in monuments, religious practice, and symbols adopted by Romans.
