Corneto
a picturesque, mediævallooking town of central Italy, 12 miles N. of Civita Vecchia, 3 miles from the Mediterranean . Corneto rose out of the ruins of the Etruscan city of Tarquinii, whose remains, within a mile and a half of Corneto, are among the most important for the student of Etruscan history. The painted tombs, of which some 20 are specially specially interesting, were known in the century; but it is mainly since 1842 that they have been examined; valuable new new discoveries were made during ex- 1881-1882.