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 Riverbend area.

The man who had it in his home taught voice lessons at Loyola, and even worked with French Quarter entertainer Chris Owens in his home studio.

Now we unravel part of the mystery.

It all started Tuesday with our story on a mystery archeologists and anthropologists were trying to unravel. 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? Since it was found while clearing vines in May, Tulane and UNO scholars figured out the marble slab was the grave marker for a member of the Ro

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