A second — century Roman headstone mysteriously turned up in the yard of a New Orleans home, and scholars are baffled as to how it got from Italy to 1106 Cambronne Street.

The property belongs to Daniella Santoro, an anthropologist at Tulane University, and she’s the one who suspected it wasn’t your average Home Depot yard ornament.

“We were cleaning up our backyard and found this marble slab in Latin. We thought pet grave, real grave?” Santoro wrote in an Oct. 6 Facebook post.

“It was so random and so impossible to find anything on the internet to help and I never would have thought it was actually real.”

Undeterred, Santoro began reaching out to experts, including her former university professors, and they all came to the same conclusion: She found an ancient artifact that belongs in

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