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Robert S. P. Beekes

Indo-Europeanist, Leiden; argued the Anatolian origin of the Etruscans (2003) 1937–2017.

Robert S. P. Beekes is dutch Indo-Europeanist (1937-2017), professor at Leiden, whose 2003 monograph restated the case that the Etruscans came from western Anatolia. (1937–2017), and appears in the record of Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated as indo-Europeanist, Leiden; argued the Anatolian origin of the Etruscans (2003).

One question rest in part on what Beekes did or said, among them “Where did the Etruscan language come from: Anatolia, the Aegean or Italy itself?”, which stands open: 3 answers, none ahead.

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Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated
Indo-Europeanist, Leiden; argued the Anatolian origin of the Etruscans (2003)
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