A family cleaning their backyard in New Orleans discovered a 1,900-year-old marble gravestone inscribed in Latin.
Sources
- A long-lost ancient Roman artifact reappears in a New Orleans ... (apnews.com)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/long-lost-ancient-roman-artifact-reappears-new-orleans-backyard-rcna237075 (nbcnews.com)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-married-couple-in-new-orleans-found-a-stone-in-their-backyard-it-turned-out-to-be-an-ancient-roman-soldiers-gravestone-180987485/ (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/roman-tombstone-found-in-new-orleans/ (archaeologymag.com)
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