How did a 2,000-year-old Roman tombstone end up in a New Orleans yard? For the past six months, this has been a question pursued by an archaeologist, an anthropologist, and a pair of classicists. As ...

Stories of ancient Roman artifacts and ruins being dug up in back gardens or disrupting construction projects are common. It seems that a British pensioner can hardly dig a new plot for potatoes, nor ...

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 hour ...

How does a 1900-year-old Roman tombstone end up in New Orleans? That’s what one couple set to find out after discovering just that while weeding their backyard. Daniella Santoro, an anthropologist at ...

Rosie Grant has always been familiar with death. Parents who led ghost tours, coupled with cutting through a cemetery on her route home from high school, helped her feel relatively comfortable with ...

An artifact was unearthed by a couple in New Orleans, Louisiana as they did a little work in their backyard. This may not sound like a surprise, given how old the city is, until you realize this ...

An ancient marble tombstone dating back to the Roman era has been discovered in the yard of a Louisiana couple doing some gardening. Tulane University anthropologist Daniella Santoro and partner Aaron ...

NEW ORLEANS — A story we first told you about went viral around the world. And now we have found the answer as to how that ancient Roman grave marker got into the back yard garden of a shotgun in the ...