Crocefisso del Tufo Necropolis;;The Necropoli del Crocefisso del Tufo—its name comes from a crucifix incision on the tuff rock—extends all along the northern tuff rock slope;upon which the ancient Etruscan Velzna—Orvieto—stands.;Discovered in the 19th century;it represents an extraordinary evidence of Etruscan history and culture.;Visiting this site is essential and complementary to the visits to The National Archeological Museum and the Claudio Faina Museum of Orvieto;which preserves a great number of finds;above all the rich ceramic goods.;The Necropolis was attended from the 8th to the 3rd centuries B.C.The layout of the necropolis;planning it into lots—i.e.grouped into blocks—dates back to the apex of its development during the 6th and 5th centuries B.C.The lots;defined by orthogonal intersecting roads that were occupied by tombs of the cubic kind—“a;dado” like dice—follow a rigid disposition reflecting a social organization of an egalitarian kind.Every burial was reserved for a single family;identified by the inscriptions—the name sculpted on the entrance lintels—that reveal the presence of foreigners in Orvieto;a town that was growing more and more cosmopolite.;Some forms of ostentation of wealth achieved by a large strata of the population are expressed with the luxurious items contained in the funerary goods;acquired on Eastern Greek markets;many of which are displayed inside the National Archaeological Museum and in the Claudio Faina Museum of Orvieto.