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Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of accomplices - a happy-go-lucky collective of grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.

Joan has nightmares of Etruscan sacrifices. She knows very well the Etruscan language and her husband Arthur is an archeologist studying Etruscan tombs. In a nightmare she foresees her husband's death. And Arthur is then killed with the same way the Etruscans killed their sacrifice victims.

A story of justice and tyranny with the fate of Rome in the balance.

A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.

A six part documentary on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire

Teen detective Nancy Drew goes undercover in Venice to track down an art thief known as "The Phantom".

Documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Gold explores the Thera (Santorini) eruption of 1628 B.C., an eruption that had greater impact on the annals of world history than the eruptions of Mounts Aetna or Vesuvius. The eruption impacted the entire Eastern Mediterranean region and caused the new kingdom of Egypt to wrest control from the Hittites, the principal occupiers of the region before the eruption. The documentary is based on the researches of archaeologist and anthropologist Dr. Richard Lyon Daly on the Shah-Nameh, the king-lists of ancient Persia, and other evidences.

Raise Rome from its humble beginnings to become the unifying power of ancient Italy, or rewrite history as you conquer the Romans to forge a new Etruscan, Celt, or Greek hegemony.

The Roman Empire ruled the world for more than five centuries. Although renowned for its military prowess, Rome's real power stemmed from its unprecedented mastery of urban planning and engineering.

QU is a digraph, two letter that represent a single sound. There are many others digraphs English but the letter Q is the only one that appears only in a digraph. The QU digraph came to Englind in the Norman conquest. Before that the sound was represented by CW in English. But the beginning of the Q and U relationship goes all the way back the and Phonecian letter qoph and the Etruscan letter koppa.

A nice journey of Sophie from Florence (the visit of the town with the architect Claudio Nardi, the Vecchio Bridge, the palaces,Piero Spagnoli and the Florence Rowing Club, the the mansion o Claudio and Anna, the aperitif at the banks of the Arno River) to the Elba Island (Emmanuele Mazzei and Silvia Dessi, the visiting of the island,the fisherman Franchino, the meeting with the Vespa Club, the boat tour with Carlo Gaspari-the diving champion-) passing by Sasseta (Daniele Cerreta, the agricultural tourist, the thermal waters), by Siena (the Palio delle Contrade-the horse race between the neighborhoods), by the place of the "Butteri" (the Stefano Senserini , the Italian cowboys, the horse riding tradition, the Association of the "Butteri" d'Alta, the horse and cattle parade). Besides we see zooms about Florence, the city of the fashion, about Dio Cecchini the butcher and restaurant owner , about the mountain village of Pitigliano, about the Saracen joust of Arezzo, about the Via Francigena and about the granitic rocks of the Elba Island.

2500 Years ago, a dynasty of Celtic Princes founded the first towns in Northern Europe. They constructed harbours along rivers and traded goods with people from all over Europe. This film presents new insights into Celtic history and culture thanks to exclusive access to the Celtic Tomb in Lavau (France) and the exceptionally rich and well-preserved collection of objects found on the gravesite.