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

The necropolis of the Villanovan culture in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome, Italy. The Villanovan culture c. 900–700 BC, regarded as the oldest phase of Etruscan civilization,was the earliest Iron Age culture of Central Italy and Northern Italy, abruptly following the Bronze Age. 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.