Last month, we visited the Banditaccia necropolis, created by the Etruscans in a place now known as Cerveteri.
It's a cemetery laid out like a city, with streets. The tombs are like houses. They have doors and sometimes windows. Most of them are round, like this:
but some were connected in a long, rectangular building:
Here's a shot looking from the inside out:
This tomb belonged to a wealthy family and was much more ornate than the others:
One tomb had a pool of stagnant water inside. What's the yellow slime floating on top?
It was really bright, flourescent even, but seemed to disappear when we looked at it from inside the tomb. Phosphorescence, maybe?
