ETRUSCANS, TYRRHENIANS, RASSENA The Etruscans, Tyrrhenians or Tyrsenes

The official Italian historiography insists that Etruscan origin is unknown. Of course, a lot of scientists do not share this opinion. The Swede Furumak, who excavated the first discovered Etruscan city, at San Giovenale, in 1962-65, clearly placed them as Aegean origin. In ancient Egyptian and Assyrian inscriptions, they are often associated with the group of the 'Aegean Sea Peoples. Like: TRESH-TURSHA-TERSHESH-TARSESH Same for the German Emilius Kunze, director of the German archaeological school in Athens. Most scientists generally accept this reality. It is curious, however, how the opinions of those who are in bad faith usually pass into public opinion. We will repeat once again that the name "Etruscans" was not the name by which they called themselves, but the name by which the Romans called them. They identified themselves with the Greek name “Tyrrhenians", and "Tyrsines" (as well as with the less well-known "Rasenians"), a name by which the sea in the region is also known. According to Strabo, Tyrrhenos was the son of Telephos, (who was son of Hercules) and Iera. He had three brothers, Lydos (Lydia), Karos (Caria) and Tarchon (he founded Tarquinia, today's Corneto. Strabo 5, 219). According to Herodotos, who was born in Halicarnassos in Caria, Lydios and Caros were brothers and spoke the same Greek language. ( The Aegean sea people which attacked Egypt in 12 century bC.). Dionysios of Halicarnassos (Dion. Introduction), writes that the Etruscans were from Greece, who together with the Lycians, the Oinotri (Enotrian), the Pefketi (Peuketi), the Leleges and other Pelasgians, settled in Italy. "The Etruscans are a very ancient Greek tribe, originating from Tours of Asia Minor. Their leader was Tyrsinus, son of Attius, who was a son of King Minos". Diodoros of Sicily, and Thucydides support the same. The Caberians or Corybantes were brothers, priests of the goddess Cybele and founders of the Caberian mysteries in Lemnos and Samothrace (islands in northern Aegean Sea, which is also considered the birthplace of the Tyrrhenians-Pelasgians). They took the box in which the penis of the god Dionysus was kept and transported it to the new Tyrrhenian home in Italy. (Clem. 2, 19).