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The origins of Etruscan civilization are shrouded in mystery, but legends of Tarchon and Tyrrhenus passed down by the Romans have parallels with Rome’s own founding myth.
A new imaging technique has allowed scientists to uncover a once-hidden figure in a 2,500-year-old tomb painting in Italy that was built by the ancient Etruscan, which flourished in Central Italy between the 8th and 3rd century.
The funeral painting is located in the Tomb of the Monkey in Tuscany, first uncovered in 1847, but the artwork had degraded so much that it looked like a red blob.
But by taking dozens of images with visible, ultraviolet and infrared bands of light, researchers have revealed a once-lost image of a person holding an object.
Researchers hope to use the technique to reveal lost details from other ancient artwork, obscured because their colors are fading at different rates.