Re: Origin of the Etruscan people?

Hayabusa wrote:

Hm. Where did the Sards come from in the first place? Most likely from
the mainland via Corsica and Elba.

The history as related by Pausanias has the earliest Sardinians come from Libya:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+10.17.1

Maybe the Ausees (Herodotus 4.180) were the ones thought of as their N.African relatives; as in "The Sherden and the Weshesh of the sea" of Rameses III.


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