The main material repository of Etruscan civilization, from the modern perspective, is its tombs.
All other public and private buildings having been dismantled and the stone reused centuries ago.
The tombs are the main source of Etruscan portables, provenance unknown, in collections throughout the world.
Their incalculable value has created a brisk black market in Etruscan objets d'art – and equally brisk law enforcement effort, as it is illegal to remove any objects from Etruscan tombs without authorization from the Italian government.

The magnitude of the task involved in cataloguing them means that the total number of tombs is unknown.
They are of many types.
Especially plentiful are the hypogeal or "underground" chambers or system of chambers cut into tuff and covered by a tumulus.
The interior of these tombs represents a habitation of the living stocked with furniture and favorite objects.
The walls may display painted murals, the predecessor of wallpaper.
Tombs identified as Etruscan date from the Villanovan period to about 100 BC, when presumably the cemeteries were abandoned in favor of Roman ones.
Some of the major cemeteries are as follows:
Caere or Cerveteri, a UNESCO site.
Three complete necropoleis with streets and squares.
Many hypogea are concealed beneath tumuli retained by walls; others are cut into cliffs.
The Banditaccia necropolis contains more than 1,000 tumuli.
Access is through a door.

Tarquinia, Tarquinii or Corneto, a UNESCO site: Approximately 6,000 graves dating from the Villanovan (ninth and eighth centuries BC) distributed in necropoleis, the main one being the Monterozzi hypogea of the sixth–fourth centuries BC.
About 200 painted tombs display murals of various scenes with call-outs and descriptions in Etruscan.
Elaborately carved sarcophagi of marble, alabaster, and nenfro include identificatory and achievemental inscriptions.
The Tomb of Orcus at the Scatolini necropolis depicts scenes of the Spurinna family with call-outs.

Inner walls and doors of tombs and sarcophagi
Engraved steles (tombstones)
ossuaries
The main material repository of Etruscan civilization, from the modern perspective, is its tombs. All other public and private buildings having been dismantled and the stone reused centuries ago. The tombs are the main source of Etruscan portables, provenance unknown, in collections throughout the world. Their incalculable value has created a brisk black market in Etruscan objets d'art – and equally brisk law enforcement effort, as it is illegal to remove any objects from Etruscan tombs without authorization from the Italian government.
The magnitude of the task involved in cataloguing them means that the total number of tombs is unknown. They are of many types. Especially plentiful are the hypogeal or "underground" chambers or system of chambers cut into tuff and covered by a tumulus. The interior of these tombs represents a habitation of the living stocked with furniture and favorite objects. The walls may display painted murals, the predecessor of wallpaper. Tombs identified as Etruscan date from the Villanovan period to about 100 BC, when presumably the cemeteries were abandoned in favor of Roman ones. Some of the major cemeteries are as follows:
Caere or Cerveteri, a UNESCO site. Three complete necropoleis with streets and squares. Many hypogea are concealed beneath tumuli retained by walls; others are cut into cliffs. The Banditaccia necropolis contains more than 1,000 tumuli. Access is through a door.
Tarquinia, Tarquinii or Corneto, a UNESCO site: Approximately 6,000 graves dating from the Villanovan (ninth and eighth centuries BC) distributed in necropoleis, the main one being the Monterozzi hypogea of the sixth–fourth centuries BC. About 200 painted tombs display murals of various scenes with call-outs and descriptions in Etruscan. Elaborately carved sarcophagi of marble, alabaster, and nenfro include identificatory and achievemental inscriptions. The Tomb of Orcus at the Scatolini necropolis depicts scenes of the Spurinna family with call-outs.
Inner walls and doors of tombs and sarcophagi
Engraved steles (tombstones)
ossuaries
Etruscan language