Villa Giulia Today The National Etruscan Museum In Rome, Italy Editorial Photo

The tomb of the bronze wagon in the ground floor of Villa Giulia today the National Etruscan Museum in Rome, Italy. The tomb represents the culture of the princes in the late orientalizing period 720-650 B.C.. It was found in 1965 in the necropolis of Osteria. Created in 1899, the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia houses works from pre-Roman Italian antiquity, especially from the Etruscan world. Among the museum’s most valuable objects are a sarcophagus from the year 520 BC, as well as several terracotta figures such as the Apollo of Veii and the image of Hercules and Apollo vying for the deer, both from 510 BC. The museum also presents a great collection of precious objects from antiquity to the 19th century.