Word: tuscania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while he was living in Port' Ercole, Italy, in 1964 and 1965. It was an area settled by the ancient Etruscans, and was honeycombed with tombs. "Every farmer you met had an ancient pot or two in his house," Hughes recalls, "except the ones who were off in Tuscania making fakes. Tomb-robbing was the local cottage industry." Hughes made his contribution to the local economy. Buying Etruscan pots from farmers and amateur dealers at top prices of from $15 to $20 each, he eventually accumulated some 40 pieces, at least half of them fake. "My eye was very...