e Metallifere#, contained iron, copper, zinc and tin in large quantities, and these were the root of Etruscan wealth and power. The island of Elba, offered the same possibilities and was the scene of similar activities.Historically, one thing is certain. When the Etruscan spread their advanced civilization over Italy, at a time in the world where most everyone is still prehistoric, they set up the great things that would happen in western Europe in the next millennium. Fifteen hundred years after the decline of the gifted Etruscans and the place they lived the Renaissance started and another great era began. ...
