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A long-lost ancient Roman artifact reappears in a New Orleans backyard
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included ...
Ancient Roman artifact uncovered in overgrown garden
New Orleans resident Daniella Santoro points out the spot in her backyard where her family discovered a 1,900-year-old gravestone for a Roman sailor that had been missing for decades from an ...
Ancient Roman Gravestone Found In New Orleans Backyard
What is rare, however, is unearthing an artifact from ancient Rome in America. Needless to say, it was quite shocking when a couple in New Orleans was clearing brush from their yard and uncovered an ancient Roman grave marker of a soldier named Sextus Congenius Verus who died roughly 1,900 years ago.
Ancient Roman gravestone found in New Orleans backyard touches off a ...
Ancient Roman Gravestone Found in New Orleans Backyard Touches Off a Mystery Nobody knew how a nearly 2,000-year-old grave marker landed in a backyard for decades — until this week.
Ancient Roman tombstone found beneath undergrowth in New Orleans yard ...
A New Orleans couple doing yard work behind their house unexpectedly found a Roman headstone of a solider who died 1,900 years ago.
Ancient Roman tombstone unearthed in New Orleans backyard sparks global ...
NEW ORLEANS — There is a mystery that archeologists and anthropologists are trying to solve. That mystery starts with a find in the backyard of a local home and will soon end in a city about an ...
A long-lost ancient Roman artifact reappears in a New Orleans backyard
History A long-lost ancient Roman artifact reappears in a New Orleans backyard The FBI is in talks with Italian authorities to repatriate the tablet.
1,900-Year-Old Roman Tombstone Unearthed in New Orleans
The Carrollton neighborhood in New Orleans, where the ancient Roman tombstone was found. Credit: Tom Bastin / CC BY 2.0 In an extraordinary discovery, a New Orleans couple uncovered an ancient Roman tombstone buried in their backyard — an artifact believed to be nearly 1,900 years old.
A Married Couple in New Orleans Found a Stone in Their Backyard. It ...
A Married Couple in New Orleans Found a Stone in Their Backyard. It Turned Out to Be an Ancient Roman Soldier’s Gravestone The piece bears a Latin inscription describing the legionary’s ...
Roman sailor’s grave marker found in New Orleans yard
As Sextus Congenius Verus was not buried in New Orleans, this confirmed that it was an artifact deracinated from the ancient grave it was marked. In fact, a stone matching the description was listed as missing from the National Archaeological Museum of Civitavecchia, an ancient port on the Tyrrhenian sea 35 miles northwest of Rome.
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