Join us for a virtual presentation and Q&A hosted by the AIA Societies Committee, featuring Jessica Tilley. The presentation will be given at 1pm Eastern/12pm Central/11am Mountain/10am Pacific. Click here to register! Often deemed the ‘mysterious’ Etruscans, this pre-Roman civilization of early Italy has fought a hard-won battle in finding its place in the field of Classical Archaeology. Various titans of American Etruscology, including this year’s AIA Gold Medalist Nancy de Grummond, have dedicated decades of research to highlighting the value of Etruscan material in answering larger questions related to ritual practice, cross-cultural interaction, and Mediterranean trade networks. In recent years, Etruscan material has been at the foreground of widely publicized repatriation cases and cultural heritage protection conversations. This buzz culminated in the globally acclaimed 2023 film *La chimera *about a band of Etruscan tomb robbers.…