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Monteroni
Monteroni is an Italian place name: chiefly the Monteroni Tumuli, an Etruscan tumulus necropolis near Ladispoli between Caere and Alsium; also towns Monteroni di Lecce and Monteroni d'Arbia; distinct from Tarquinia's Monterozzi.
Monument La Torratxa (Vilablareix)
La Torratxa (Vilablareix), also Torre dels Moros, is a Roman turriform funerary mausoleum of opus caementicium in the Gironès, Catalonia, center of a villa necropolis, roughly 8 m tall, restored with a protective roof.
Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia
Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia (Αηδόνια), a Late Bronze Age rock-cut chamber tomb cemetery near Nemea, Corinthia, Greece, looted in 1976-77, partly re-excavated by the TAPHOS project since 2015, with repatriated jewelry in the Nemea museum.
Necropoli de La Petrina
Necropoli de La Petrina, also called La Petrina necropolis, is the principal Faliscan cemetery of ancient Narce at Mazzano Romano, Italy, used from the 8th to the 3rd centuries B.C., excavated 1890–1894, with finds in Villa Giulia and Philadelphia.
Necropoli del Fusco
Necropoli del Fusco, the main ancient Greek necropolis of Syracuse, Sicily, in Contrada Fusco near Ortigia; used from the late 8th to 3rd century BCE, key for proto-Corinthian pottery chronology and Orsi's excavations.
Necropoli di San Placido
Necropoli di San Placido (San Placido necropolis) is a Roman necropolis in Messina, Sicily, with over 200 tombs from the Augustan period to the 2nd-3rd century AD, excavated by Paolo Orsi in 1914 during construction of the Palazzo della Prefettura.
Necropoli Fondo Scataglini
Necropoli Fondo Scataglini, Tarquinia: Hellenistic-Roman sector (late 4th century BC to 1st century AD) of the Monterozzi necropolis, with 175 rock-cut tombs on a disused Etruscan quarry, excavated by the Lerici Foundation.
Necropolis at Archontiko
Necropolis at Archontiko (Pella, Macedonia): group of Iron Age to Hellenistic cemeteries around a settlement mound 5 km NW of Pella, possibly ancient Tyrissa; its West Necropolis holds over 1,000 excavated graves with gold-masked 6th-century BC elite burials.
Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju
Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju: prehistoric hypogeic cemetery of 38 domus de janas near Alghero, Sardinia; largest pre-Nuragic necropolis of northern Sardinia, used 3200-1600 BC, UNESCO-listed 2025.
Necropolis of Campovalano
Necropolis of Campovalano (Necropoli di Campovalano), pre-Roman Pretuzian burial ground near Campli, Teramo, Abruzzo; over 600 tombs used from the 10th century BC to the early 2nd century BC, with stone-circle tumulus tombs, chariots, and Etruscan-import bronze vessels.
Necropolis of Pantalica
The Necropolis of Pantalica is a prehistoric rock-cut cemetery in southeast Sicily near Syracuse, with over 5,000 chamber tombs dating mainly from the 13th to 7th centuries BC.
Necropolis of Ponte Messato
Necropolis of Ponte Messato (Necropoli di Ponte Messato), also called Madonna della Cona: pre-Roman and Roman burial ground in Teramo, Abruzzo, in use from the 9th century BC to the imperial age along the ancient Via Caecilia; discovered 1961, with Italic inhumation and Roman cremation phases.
Necropolis of Porta Ercolano
The Necropolis of Porta Ercolano is the funerary district of ancient Pompeii outside the Herculaneum Gate, holding tombs of aristocratic citizens, including the schola tomb of the priestess Mamia.
Necropolis of Porta Nola
Necropolis of Porta Nola (Necropoli di Porta Nola), Roman cemetery outside Pompeii's eastern gate. Schola tombs of Aesquilia Polla, enclosure of Marcus Obellius Firmus, four Praetorian graves, and 79 AD eruption fugitive casts.
Necropolis of Porta Vesuvio
Necropolis of Porta Vesuvio, the Roman burial ground outside Pompeii's Vesuvius Gate along the road to Mount Vesuvius, excavated 1907–1910, with elite monumental tombs including the painted tomb of Vestorius Priscus.
Necropolis of Santa Maria in Borraccia
Necropoli di Santa Maria in Borraccia: Etruscan necropolis of the 7th-6th century BC at Magliano in Toscana, Grosseto, Tuscany, near ancient Heba; chamber tombs with dromos, visitor route opened 2024.
Netta
Netta is an ancient cemetery site in northeastern Poland, cited as Barrington Atlas 2 H3, with a DARMC location for AD 300-640; excavated graves include a unique Scandinavian single-barbed spear point and prestige-marked family groups.
Novyy Kumak
Novyy Kumak (Новый Кумак) is a kurgan burial ground near Orsk, Orenburg Region, Russia, with Bronze Age, Sauromatian (6th–4th c. BC), and Golden Horde-era nomadic burials; it also names a Bronze Age cultural type.
Oblin
Oblin (site 5, Gmina Maciejowice, Poland): a fully excavated Przeworsk culture cremation cemetery on the Vistula, dug 1986–1995 by Katarzyna Czarnecka; about 314 graves from the 2nd century BC to the 2nd century AD, distinct from the eastern Przeworsk zone.
Pakri Mound
Pakri Mound: ancient burial mounds at Pakri, West Champaran district, Bihar, protected by the ASI as Vedic burial mounds per T. Bloch's 1905 excavation hypothesis; distinct from a same-named Patna-district village.
Patronus tomb
Patronus tomb: Roman funerary monument, ca. 20 BCE, outside Rome's Capena Gate for Patron, a Greek physician, his wife Atheno and daughter Appoleia; discovered 1842 by Campana, frescoes and Greek epitaph now in the Louvre.
Peschiera necropolis
Peschiera necropolis (Necropoli della Peschiera) is an Etruscan rock-cut necropolis at Tuscania in Lazio, central Italy, in use from the 8th to the 1st century BC.
Phourni
Phourni (Φουρνί) is a Minoan cemetery at Archanes, Crete, used from about 2400 to 1200 BCE. Excavated from 1964 by the Sakellarakises, it has tholos and house tombs, ossuaries, and royal Mycenaean-era burials.
Pian della Conserva
Pian della Conserva (Pian Conserva), Etruscan necropolis on a tuff plateau in the Mignone valley near Tolfa, Lazio; largest necropolis of the Tolfa Mountains, controlled by Caere, with over 100 chamber tombs of the late seventh to sixth century BC.
Pian di Mola necropolis
Pian di Mola necropolis (Necropoli di Pian di Mola), Etruscan rock-cut cemetery at Tuscania, Viterbo, Lazio, in use 7th-1st century BC, known for the 6th-century BC house tomb with a four-column portico and lion and sphinx acroteria.
Pianabella
Pianabella, the "beautiful plain" south of Ostia Antica, is a roughly 50-hectare Roman necropolis with an orthogonal road grid and a late-4th-century Christian cemetery basilica (43.30 x 16.20 m) used for burials into the 9th century.
Poggino necropolis
Poggino necropolis (Necropoli del Poggino), Etruscan burial site near Fonterutoli, Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany: five tombs of the 7th-5th centuries BC, princely 6th-century BC grave goods, excavated by Carlotta Cianferoni, linked to the Museo Archeologico del Chianti.
Pokrovka-4 mound
Pokrovka-4 (Покровка-4), Eneolithic Afanasyevka-culture kurgan cemetery in the Charysh basin, Altai Krai, Russia; federal heritage site (Order 1495, 2015) with flagstone ring fences, ochre burials, and bronze-and-gold temple beads.
Putensen
Putensen, village in Salzhausen, Landkreis Harburg, Lower Saxony, Germany; site of the Gräberfelder von Putensen, a Jastorf urn cemetery (743 graves, 450 BC-50 AD) and a Lombard cremation cemetery (982 graves, 50-375 AD) with the rich warrior grave 150.
Royal Kurgan
Royal Kurgan (Tsarsky Kurgan, Царський курган), a 4th-century BC Bosporan royal burial mound near Kerch, Crimea: 17 m high, 80 m diameter, 37 m dromos, corbelled dome, opened by Ashik in 1837, looted in antiquity, probably Leukon I's tomb.