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During the second quarter of the 19th century, when extensive excavations were being carried out in the necropolises of Etruria, tombs of the Orientalizing Period were also unearthed. The chambers became known as Egyptian grottoes because they were richly decorated with foreign objects. The most Egyptian-like of these grottoes, the so-called Isis-Tomb of Vulci, is the subject of this book. A spectacular discovery in its day, the Isis-Tomb of Vulci is still a cornerstone for the definition of the Orientalizing Period in Etruria. In this volume, the author makes a reconstruction of the original tomb-group, based upon contemporary documents, as well as shedding light on the history of science at a time when Egyptology and Classical Archaeology developed into proper academic disciplines and the tomb-groups of the Orientalizing Period became of interest to several fields of research. German text.