On the Lungomare “Italo Falcomatà”, near to the National Archeology Museum, we can see two tombs built with large “parallelepipedi di arenaria”. These were part of the Greek necropolis of the area of Santa Lucia and were discovered in 1932 in the area of the actual museum.

The first remains of this vast necropolis came to light between 1883 and 1886 on the right bank of Santa Lucia; following that, you could suppose that these extended to the area occupied by the actual Museum and from the moment that, at the beginning of their construction, a large section came to light of 111 tombs dating between the second and third century of different types and each with diferent importance.

A group of these graves is still conserved today in a room under via Romeo which is accessable through the courtyard of the National Archeology Museum.