International Herald Tribune has the article Origins of the Etruscans: Was Herodotus right? on DNA analyses that supports the view of the Greek historian Herodotus that the Etruscans originally migrated from the Near East.

The Etruscans was a people whose culture and civilization started in 800 B.C., and it was based in northwestern Italy until the rise of the Roman Empire in 510 B.C.