san maria dell'oraione e morte

Responsible for interring the abandoned corpses of Rome, this church (overseen by a convent) has an amazing crypt.

church itself

entrance hall

Necropolis di Banditaccia

Showing different types of burial practices from the 9th to the 1st century BC, and bear witness to the achievements of Etruscan culture. Which over nine centuries developed the earliest urban civilization in the northern Mediterranean. Some of the tombs are monumental, cut in rock and topped by impressive tumuli (burial mounds). Many feature carvings on their walls, others have wall paintings of outstanding quality. The necropolis near Cerveteri, known as Banditaccia, contains thousands of tombs organized in a city-like plan, with streets, small squares and neighbourhoods. The site contains very different types of tombs: trenches cut in rock; tumuli; and some, also carved in rock, in the shape of huts or houses with a wealth of structural details. These provide the only surviving evidence of Etruscan residential architecture. (UNESCO site)

the pottery

these are the grave markers-the column for a male, house for a female

details of wooden architecture carved into the rock

cist graves

Xanthi

cemetery with a view

preserved exterior wall painting

Igrexa Santa Maria a Nova

home to an exhibit of very old gravestones

paint remains on the architrave sculpture

there are dead buried in the very walls it seems