The Etruscans: Ancestors of Ancient Rome (Ancient Civilisation Documentary) | Timeline

Enjoying our content? You’ll love the Timeline History Channel app! Download now: This documentary looks at the fun-loving Etruscans, who invented two spectator sports, gladiatorial combat and chariot racing. They were sophisticated people, with a sculptural and painting tradition, a religion based on human-type gods which they had learned from the Greeks and a complicated set of rituals for divining the future, which they handed down to the Romans. Content licensed from Sky Vision. A