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Etruscan Treasures Return Home: After decades behind the Iron Curtain, hundreds of Etruscan artifacts have returned to Italy in a major show from 26 museums in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The 1,200 artifacts, which were virtually inaccessible to Westerners for decades, have come home to central Italy, where the Etruscan culture flourished until the 1st Century BC. The exhibit, organized by the State Museums of Berlin and housed in a Gothic castle in Viterbo, 50 miles north of Rome, is being hailed as a chance for scholars and the public to rediscover Etruscan masterpieces.