In 1914, they went to work on their masterpieces—three outsized Etruscan figures. As model for one standing warrior, they used a photograph of a little statue that is now in Berlin’s Old Museum.

So many amazing discoveries turned out to be hoaxes thanks to a little bit of scrutiny from experts. Here are ten of the most notorious.

Currently, the statue of the Warrior of Capestrano is housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Abruzzo in the town of Chieti, following a complex history of studies and interpretations. This ...

San Casciano and the surrounding region of Tuscany were once home to the sophisticated pre-Roman Etruscan civilisation, which in the first century BC was violently subjugated by the Roman Republic.

The find has been compared the discovery to the famous bronze Riace Warriors statues discovered in Calabria in 1972. The pair of two-meter tall Greek warrior bronzes were cast around 450 BC and ...

Italian archaeologists have uncovered several 2,000-year-old bronze statues from pre-Roman times in a Tuscan thermal spring, calling it an "exceptional find." ...

Dating back to the 2nd century BC, more than 20 bronze statues discovered during excavations in a thermal resort in Tuscany is one of the finds of the century.

The excavation revealed the largest deposit of bronze statues from the Etruscan and Roman age ever discovered in Italy.