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The story begins here from the final phase of the Bronze Age. The river Marta and its tributaries are the magnet of the first settlements in this archaic area , they settled in the hills formed by the erosion of natural waters. From the seventh century. BC, we define seven sites, well identified by their burial, located on the hills that run from north to south of S. Peter, considered the heart of the territory and the religious reference of the commercial and residential complex immediately adjacent to a larger area of ten kilometers. Unlike almost all the archaic Etruscan centers the Tuscanian aggregation of villages in a single center occurred very slowly, until it was stabilized in the second half of the fourth century b.C. Obviously, the intertwining of economic trade, which referred to this road junction, introduced forms and cultural forces that, at least in alternating periods, promoted the influence of this culture on the others, slowing down the unity of the physical and political center. In the first archaic phase Tuscany is certainly part of the territory of Tarquinia, whose cultural influence is evident in the frequent use of massive graves with upper slit or with double axial lancet with columns represented in the negative. The concurrent use of the cube tombs plays an important role in this so-called culture of the ancient rock tombs of the first phase ( Blera, St. Julian's, St Juvenal ), also clearly inspired to the Caeretan like in the mounds of the necropolis Ara del Tufo .Known as a center of historical and monumental importance Tuscania also boasts an extraordinary Etruscan presence, not only for the common aspects of the Etruscans, but only for the mystery, magic and the occult, just remember the Grotto of labirinbto together with the Queen of the Bronze Mirror ( the Museum of Florence ) where Tagete reveals Tarconte the secrets of divination called auruspicina. This art in Tuscany lasted until the Roman period in the middle of which there is a tangible sign in a fragment of stone with the name of a Tuscanian citizen ( now Romanized ): Lucio Emilio son of Lucius Festus "haruspex decuriale". Around Tuscany, within a couple of miles and more, are scattered Etruscan and Roman tombs, and many gathered in the cemetery, others scattered with no apparent pattern but definitely related to the housing complex as its center and the Acropolis. The oldest cemeteries, particularly in the locality Scalette are covered from many types of tombs in upper slit dating VIII - VII century b.C., clearly influenced by the Tarquinian style that evolve into rock tombs with rooms equipped with docks for axial deposition. From the second half of the sixth century b.C. there is a frequent use of the rock tombs of this type: the monumental tombs, sometimes with ambitions clearly influenced by the Caeretan carved into rocky cliffs overlooking the rivers and made working on the rock This phenomenon demonstrates the existence of a class in Tuscania which was able to receive and to elaborate cultures riginally distant.