Achilles' slaying of Troilus
According to prophecy, Troy wouldn’t fall until a number of conditions had been met. One of them was the death of the Trojan prince Troilus.
Painted tombs from Porano
The archaeological museum of Orvieto features wall-paintings from Etruscan tombs found in the nearby village of Porano.
Food insecurity in Early Rome
Responsibility for solving food crises often falls to a community’s leaders. Early Rome was no different, and in the first centuries of the Republic suffered from, and solved, the problem of food scarcity.