There are about 200 painted Etruscan tombs of Tarquinia in the subsoil. A magnitude. And you think that is only 3 percent of all the various tombs necropolis of Tarquinia
. Today we visited half a dozen, from the great hunting and fishing that fills our hearts with serenity, the disturbing demons blue, one of the last dig, with the first stage of the descent into the underworld found in an Etruscan tomb. A distressing scene, with the demons that frighten the dead woman that none of it to board the boat of Charon, and with a horrible little devil who drives her. We started our tour by the Museum. I already knew the winged horses, but to see them again was a thrill. The winged horses, found a bit in '38 'to pieces under the temple of Goddess Queen in Civita, what remains of the ancient city of Tarquinia, are a cross between a relief and a sculpture in the round. They have an incredible lightness and seem about to take flight. Stay enchanted to watch them when you turn around and think that if you turned on again if you find them again. We went, me, Lorenzo and the entire troupe of Radio 3, to see the famous temple. Foundations are used to seeing nothing above, we were amazed to see this great temple, which we do not know who he was, mostly, with many steps above ground. Tarquinese I also called it the pyramid because actually seems to be the basis of a large pyramid. The plant is orthogonal but in the left corner is the base of a building (An altar? A temple?) That does not respect the alignment of the sanctuary. Why? Archaeologists have long been calling for. An explanation if they are also given. Clearly, the small building was a previous era, it was something sacred and revered, and this veneration was very important. So ... so it could be the testimony of the great Tarconte, the son of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Lydian first arrived in central Italy from today's Turkey to establish the Etruscan culture and power? Tarconte, a myth, the founder of Tarquinia. More evidence? There are none. But Dr. Maria Cataldi, director of the Museum of Tarquinia recalls Stendhal who said that archaeologists say things based on suggestions, then tell another volta, poi ancora. Alla terza volta la suggestione è verità. Poi abbiamo assistito ad un delitto. La storia è quella di un omicidio. La storia di un colono eubeo che si era spinto nel Tirreno fino in acque etrusche con la sua piccola nave ed era stato intercettato da navi di tarquiniesi. Era stato ferito con un ascia sul cranio, non era morto, ed era stato trasportato moribondo in città. Era stato tenuto prigioniero per quaranta giorni poi era stato ucciso con un colpo sulla tempia destra in modo rituale. Un sacrificio. L'ho chiamato il delitto Beta perché è avvenuto nel settore Beta degli scavi che siamo andati a visitare. Abbiamo visto le fondamenta di una piccola costruzione evidentemente adibita a sacrifici umani, siamo passati sopra i muri where they were found the skeletons of sacrificed children, one with a shot that pulled the head. They showed us the drain blood. And the place where they found the body of a young person with epilepsy that was probably considered a link between the land and the divine. One area, the Beta sector, where boys from the University of Milan dug quietly. We shudder as we tried some thinking what was going on in that place only yesterday, 2800 years ago.
And the tombs, where I made a sensational discovery. Or copied by the Etruscans or Altan Altan copied by the Etruscans. I incline to the latter. The men of Altan, its pillars and other workers are identical, but their identical to some figures I've seen in some tombs, the same body, same gestures, even the same dance. Checco, if I see, send me an explanation. Last visit to a limestone quarry where they were sawn and removed the large blocks for building houses and tombs. One of the many caves that run beneath the soil of Tarquinia. A huge cave, high, deep, like a cathedral in the subsoil, which once exhausted has served as a place for cultivating mushrooms, to store wine and now is a dwelling place for a dense colony of bats. Tomorrow is the last day of travel in Etruria, as for me and Lorenzo. Vulci tomb with its famous François.
Replay la quarta puntata. 
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