According to the British Guardian , it appears that Herodotus was telling the truth when he stated, 2500 years ago, that the origins of the Etruscans were to be found in Anatolia - today's Turkey.
According to the author of the famous Stories, in fact, the Etruscan lineage present in Italy would have descended from a part of the Lydian people , forced to emigrate to the Italian coasts by the decision of her sovereign, following the difficult conditions of life in western Anatolia .
During the first century BC, however, the papers of History were mixed first by the Roman historian Tito Livio - who attributed to the Etruscans a Northern European descent - and then by the Greek Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who assigned to the Etruscans a totally Italic origin . Recent scientific discoveries, however, would confirm the thesis of Herodotus, finally solving the enigma about the origin of the Etruscans.
The hypothesis that the Etruscan people have Turkish roots is confirmed by a series of apparently undeniable circumstances. Not only does the language spoken by the Etruscans find very few correspondences in imperial Latin but, according to recent studies, the same cattle raised in Tuscany - already in ancient times, such as the "Chianina" cattle - are genetically more similar to Turkish animals and of the Balkans, rather than their Italian counterparts.
Similarly, some investigations conducted by the University of Turin would confirm the Anatolian origin of the Etruscan people: the DNA of the descendants - such as the inhabitants of Volterra and Murlo, already sites of important archaeological finds - has much in common with the genetic code of the inhabitants of Turkey ; certainly more than it shares with other ethnic groups scattered throughout the beautiful country.
(Source Arte.sky.it)