1,900-year-old Roman tablet found among weeds in New Orleans backyard

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00:00Here's something you don't expect to dig up in your backyard.

00:05A Louisiana woman was clearing some overgrowth when she uncovered a marble tablet

00:10containing the mysterious inscription, Spirits of the Dead, on it.

00:15It turned out to be the 1900-year-old grave marker of a Roman sailor named Sextus Congenus Verus.

00:23So how did it end up in New Orleans? The sequence of events is fascinating.

00:27She learned the tablet had been missing from an Italian museum for decades.

00:31A U.S. soldier from New Orleans who served in Italy during World War II

00:35had apparently taken the tablet when the museum was destroyed by Allied bombing.

00:40It got passed on to his granddaughter, who used to own the house where the tablet was found.

00:45She says she used it as a garden decoration and forgot about it.

00:50Now the FBI is in talks with Italian authorities to return the tablet to its rightful home.

00:57Nienu Life

00:58Nienu Life

01:00A U.S. soldier of the Dead

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01:02A U.S. soldier of the Dead

01:06Animalendes

01:07Nien-Kûrest

01:07In a Tunic

01:10Nien' Davis

01:12A Ltato

01:12Aak

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01:14Burm

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01:16B

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01:17Burm

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