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)
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| the pottery |
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| these are the grave markers-the column for a male, house for a female |
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| details of wooden architecture carved into the rock |
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| cist graves |
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