Those Darn Italians

Oh, those darn Italians. Number three on my imaginary bucket list was finding and undiscovered Etruscan tomb at Tarquinia. I have dreamed of digging at the famed Necropolis since my college professor told me the Etruscans were the garbage pit of the Roman Empire. Well, congrats to archaeologists Maria Licidi, Elornora Attilia and Claudio Castelle for finding the first tomb in thirty years. Why the fascination with cemeteries? I grew up in the Mississippi Delta and all the females of our family have a morbid addiction to graves. Faster than scurrying mice, they drive hundreds of miles to wander aimlessly up and down rows of buried bodies. After all, and this is a little known fact, reading epitaphs is a Southern literary pursuit.