The Etruscan World

The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine techniques of metal production and other pyrotechnology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138060356
• ISBN13: 9781138060357
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 1168 Pages
• Weight: 5.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 6.9" x 9.7"