This book is about ancient archeology, an amazing science that again and again encourages humanity to rewrite many pages of ancient history. The story of fascinating searches and amazing discoveries of scientists is exciting and dynamic, like a historical detective story, because the author knows the subject perfectly, to which he devoted decades of his long and colorful life. Returning from the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, he became a brilliant translator, an extraordinary writer and one of the largest Russian historians of antiquity, a unique specialist in the culture of the mysterious people - the Etruscans... Recently, Alexander Iosifovich Nemirovsky passed away. We dedicate this book to the blessed memory of the scientist and writer.