At Rome’s Museum of Etruscan Archeology, Villa Giulia, I saw an intriguing documentary by Dario Prosperini, a video-journalist for Corriere della Sera and cineaste.  L’anello di Grace tells the story of a unique archeological find, the 6th-century BC tomb of an Etruscan high-ranking official containing the skeletons of a man and wife, bronze and terracotta pots, two drinking cups, perhaps a gold ring, and a ceremonial “chariot”.

The story, which still has no ending, begins on February 8, 1902, when a farmer from near Monteleone di Spoleto in Umbria, Isodoro Vannozzi and his son Giuseppe unearthed the tomb. On March 28, 1902 instead of reporting their finds to the authorities, the Vannozzi sold the chariot to Benedetto Pietrangeli, an antique dealer in Norcia for 900 lire.