Cerveteri

Cerveteri is a metropolis and comune of northern Lazio within the region of the Metropolitan City of Rome. Known by way of the historical Romans as Caere, and formerly with the aid of the Etruscans as Caisra or Cisra, and as Agylla through the Greeks, its current call derives from Caere Vetus used in the 13th century to distinguish it from Caere Novum. It is the web site of the historic Etruscan metropolis which become one of the most crucial Etruscan cities with a place extra than 15 instances large than brand new metropolis.

Caere changed into one of the town-states of the Etruscan League and at its height, round 600 BC, its populace became perhaps round 25,000 - 40,000 people. Little is thought of the ancient city, even though six temples are known from diverse assets. Two of them were excavated, one in all Hera, the alternative inside the north of the metropolis. Parts of the city partitions are still visible these days and excavations unfolded a theatre.

Three necropolis have been found. The contents of the tombs had been excavated, frequently chaotically and illegally; over the previous few centuries, they have yielded wealthy and great objects, along with ceramics and jewelry which these days grace among the world's museums. One well-known and important work of art is the Sarcophagus of the Spouses.