Opened from the Dark: Inside an Etruscan Tomb
Somewhere in the hills north of Rome, the ground has a secret.
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Opened from the Dark: Inside an Etruscan Tomb
Somewhere north of Rome, a hillside holds more than wheat and scrubby oak. A few metres down, there are rooms — stone-cut chambers sealed for two and a half thousand years, belonging to a people who were old when Rome was young. This episode goes underground into the world of Etruscan tomb excavation: what the tombs look like, how they were found, and the patient, methodical work it takes to open them properly. From the great necropoli at Cerveteri and Tarquinia, to the painted walls of the Tomb of the Leopards, to the slow work of soil sampling and stratigraphic recording — it's a story about how much a careful trowel can recover from the dark.
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