Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi

This guide to the Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi in Lucca opens on a 1982 construction dig at Lucca's southeastern edge, where workmen struck clay urns from a settlement dating back some 2,600 years along the Auser river. It follows archaeologists as they open eight sealed tombs, each holding the same quiet cremation ritual, until one grave turns out different from the rest. The gallery ahead holds what they found inside it, resting exactly where a shovel once left it.