2,600-Year-Old Etruscan Tomb Unsealed, Four Burials Survive Untouched

Archaeologists at the San Giuliano site in central Italy opened a 2,600-year-old sealed Etruscan tomb and found four individuals laid out on stone beds, surrounded by more than 100 grave goods that had remained undisturbed since the seventh century B.C.; the find provides a rare, intact snapshot of Etruscan funerary practices and will undergo isotopic, anthropological, and genetic analyses to learn who the individuals were and how they fit into the broader Etruscan settlement.