The truth behind how an ancient Roman tombstone ended up in a New Orleans backyard has finally been uncovered. Daniella Santoro and partner Aaron Lorenz were baffled when they discovered the 1,900-year-old artifact in their Louisiana backyard back in March. They traced it back to a Roman sailor named Sextus Congenius Verus and found that it had been missing from a museum in Italy since the 1940s. Now, following local enquiries, a woman named Erin Scott O’Brien revealed her granddad had brought the tablet home from Italy after World War II, and it sat in a display case in his home until his death in 1986. O’Brien said she later repurposed the tablet as a garden decoration, but forgot to take it with her when she moved house in 2018. “I just thought it was a piece of art,” she told local med

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