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 hour north of Rome.
How in the world did something nearly 2,000 years old get from the other side of the world into the back yard garden of a shotgun in the Riverbend? Well last spring Dr. Daniella Santoro and her husband were pulling up six years of overgrown vines.
“And he calls me in I hear him saying he's like, “Oh, I found a really cool stone. Not in a million years did I think it was actually authentic,” said the homeowner Dr. Daniella Santoro.
The marble stone was etched with ancient Roman abbreviations and names. Daniella is an expert in cultural anthropology and teaches at Tulane. So, she got the hel