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In Eastern Europe, exhumed bodies have been used as symbols by political parties, as anthropologist Katherine Verdery explains in her forthcoming book, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies in the Postsocialist Transformation . For instance, liberal reform parties have disinterred Communist leaders from their mausoleums while reburying pre-Communist nationalist heroes in elaborate sarcophagi.
These were a development from the fayum paintings that covered the face of the dead in the sarcophagi of Egyptian mummies.
Three sarcophagi stand in the cross-shaped chapel, but no one knows if her remains (she died in 450) are in one of them (her husband and son should fill the others).
The museum exhibits sarcophagi, Etruscan and imported Greek vases, and some of the best wall-paintings — all in reconstructed tombs.
Built from the eighth to the 12th centuries, San Pietro stands at the ba ck of a grassy courtyard with Etruscan sarcophagi, beside two crumbling medieval towers.