Before the Ancient Romans, it was the Ancient Greeks who colonized Naples, leaving behind traces of life, and death, inside ancient burial chambers, she says. She points a flashlight at a stone-relief tombstone that depicts the legs and feet of those buried inside. “There are two people, a man and a woman” in this one tomb, she explains. “Normally you can find eight or even more.” This tomb was discovered in 1981, the old-fashioned way, by digging. Now, archeologists are joining forces with physicists, trading their pickaxes for subatomic particle detectors about the size of a household microwave. 

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