Seven years ago, Daniela Santoro and her husband bought a house.
It was an old house.
It's over 100 years old.
Very well protected from winds and hurricane damage.
So it stood through a lot, this house.
And because it's an old house, it's a shotgun.
So here in New Orleans a lot of the Houses are shotguns, where sort of the front door and the back door are directly across from one another.
Hence the name shotgun, where you could fire a shotgun and go straight through the house, straight to the back.
In the back, the house has a small yard.
We never really did anything with it because...
It's sort of tucked away in the back.
We moved here when I was pregnant.
I had a small baby.
It was just like not a priority at all until last year, when we decided that it's time to clear the jungle.
There's a beautiful house next door, but it's surrounded by banana trees.
So the banana trees had pushed through the fence in our backyard.
So by the time I got to it and decided we should do something.
When you look back there, it was just huge, tall banana trees that had pushed through the fence.
Tons of bananas vines, tons of vines.
And that's just New Orleans for you.
It's going to grow if you take your attention away from it for a minute.
I was very proud of myself knocking down and pulling up those banana tree roots and then pulling up all these vines.
My husband came in to do a lot of the heavy lifting at the end.
I just couldn't get up the last sort of hardy, tough ones.
And...
So he came in and just sort of hacked away and yanked them up by their big ball roots.
And that's when he uncovered the stone.
Daniela was inside the house when her husband came back in and told her he'd found something he thought she should see.
What did the stone look like?
It was both clearly distinctive and unique and not something I'd ever seen before.
But on another hand, it also struck me as not particularly remarkable aesthetically.
It was a flat stone about the size of a laptop.
You can tell it's obviously like solid marble.
You know, it had been in earth and was sort of dirty.
And it was all words.
Letters had been carved into the stone, but not in a language they could read.
Daniela says their first thought was that it looked like some kind of gravestone.
Then our minds started wandering and we thought maybe someone's buried in our backyard, right?
It was under a satsuma tree.
So that's also where it felt very intentional that it was there, because it was under the satsuma tree that had existed when we got here.
My husband's first thought was maybe there's a pet.
The previous owner's pet buried their pet here and they etched something roughly because it did look like hand etched right.
This was not something that was refined.
This was not a refined piece.
This was not something that a machine had engraved in any way.
You know, clearly a hand had touched this and had carved out those letters.
But then, when we looked closely, we realized that the entire thing was in Latin, which was gave us pause, right?
Like, well, why would someone etch a grave marker in Latin?
They wiped off some of the dirt and leaves and took a closer look.
And at the very top, it said D period, M period.
So a quick Google search revealed that that meant to the spirits of the departed.
In Latin, the inscription DM stands for Dis Manibus, to the spirits of the departed.
The phrase has been used on gravestones since the time of the Roman Empire.
You can tell it had that standard format where there were the initials on top.
And then it had a block, a bunch of text.
And the text was very curious because the text didn't have clear spaces between the words.
It wasn't clear what was a word, what was an initial, what was maybe the person who carved it.
Maybe didn't measure the spaces directly in between.
Again, it had that feel that had been touched by hand.
And I had a friend who put it through Chachapiti, and it came back with something about of 12 year old boy being buried there, you know, and that it was.
This was in somehow honoring a person, a young boy.
And so then i said, oh my gosh this, there might be someone buried in our yard.
And my imagination just kind of went wild from there.
I imagine someone you know maybe in the late 19th century maybe decided that they wanted to honor someone with latin, maybe an Italian right.
So that was kind of where I was going down.
Daniela is an anthropologist at Tulane University and she started thinking about friends and colleagues she could reach out to for help.
Who do I know who speaks Latin?
Who do I know who studies classics?
Who do I know, who might know something about the history of this neighborhood, who might have some answers about this?
She reached out to different people, including a friend of a friend, an archaeologist named Ryan Gray, who had done work mapping old cemeteries in the city, a lot of which have been buried under buildings and houses.
Ryan told Daniela her house didn't seem to be built on top of a cemetery.
And eventually Daniela was put in touch with a professor of classical studies at Tulane who would maybe be able to tell them more about the inscription.
Her name's Suzanne Lusnia.
Daniela emailed Suzanne and sent her a photo of the gravestone.
I had been teaching in the morning, and so I hadn't actually gotten to my email until a little later in the day, about midday or so.
And I opened up this email.
And you know she said she had this thing she'd found in their backyard and she attached the photo and I looked at it.
And I just I had that shiver down my spine that you get when you see something and it's, it's amazing.
You know, you just you don't believe you're seeing what you're actually seeing.
Suzanne was sure that the gravestone was almost 2000 years old, carved by hand sometime during the Roman Empire, most likely the second century.
And now it was in a backyard under a satsuma tree in New Orleans.
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What made you look at it and know immediately that it was real?
The shapes of the letters.
The text was a familiar style of text for a funerary inscription.
You know, the letter forms were right.
The text made sense.
It just looked like it was real.
The funny thing was that it was on April 1st.
So when I looked back on it I was like oh, it's kind of funny that it happened on April Fool's Day.
But yeah, it was no April Fool.
It was real.
What did the inscription say?
The inscription was a funerary inscription set up for a soldier by the name of Sextus Congenius Verus.
The inscription had nothing to do with the 12-year-old boy, like ChatGPT had told Daniela and her friend.
The soldier had served in the Navy, in a place that was then called Mycenaeum, on the Bay of Naples.
We asked Suzanne to read us the gravestone's inscription.
To the spirits of the dead for Sextus Congenius Verus, soldier of the Praetorian fleet Misanensis from the tribe of the Bessie, who lived 42 years and served 22 years in the military on the trireme Asclepius.
Attilius Carus and Vettius Longinus, his heirs, made this for him well-deserving.
And so it has these two formulas at the beginning, the to the spirits of the dead formula, And then, at the very end, it has capital B and capital M standing for a Latin phrase, bene morenti, which means well-deserving.
And these are fairly common beginnings and ends for inscriptions for the funerary context.
Suzanne got to work trying to find out where the stone had come from.
She started by looking through a collection called The Corpus of Latin Inscriptions.
It was first published in 1863 after a group of scholars had decided to try to collect every known Roman text in one place.
The collection continues to be updated, and today it consists of 17 volumes.
Suzanne found one mention of the stone in a recent edition.
It said its location was unknown, but in older versions of the collection she'd seen that the gravestone had first been included around 1910 and back then the stone was in Italy, the modern port city of Chivitevecchia.
So that was a clue that okay, this used to be in Chivitevecchia, but somehow it left Chivitevecchia and ended up in New Orleans.
And so that was going to be the next thing, was trying to figure out how that happened.
Suzanne contacted a museum in the Italian town the stone had come from.
It's about 40 miles northwest of Rome.
They replied and said, yes, this is ours, and yes, we would love to have it back.
And so we began discussing what the process would be.
Because I knew there was a repatriation process for returning cultural heritage items back to their original locations.
But I wasn't sure exactly how we would go about that.
When we found out that it needed to go back to Italy.
Of course, my daydream was me, my husband and my daughter, and I'm holding a briefcase and we get to go on Delta or whatever with the stone and I get to bring it back, you know.
And of course, that's not how that works.
You don't just get to bring it back.
The Italian museum director told us, well, you need to report it to a local authority.
And we sort of laughed and thought well, probably not the New Orleans Police Department, because they won't really know what to do with this.
And so I ended up reaching out to my former dissertation director from years ago and I said who should we talk to?
I was given the name of an agent in the FBI Art Crimes Unit to contact.
And eventually, an FBI agent from the New Orleans office came and picked up the stone.
I bet you didn't think you'd be dealing with the FBI in your life.
No.
And I have to say, he kind of looked like he could have been a character on like White Collar.
Like he looked like an actor.
After the FBI picked up the stone, they held on to it for many months, preparing for its return to Italy.
In the meantime, Suzanne learned more about it.
The stone had been found actually in the middle of the 19th century.
In the 1860s, there was a prison being built just north of Civitavecchia.
And this prison is still there.
But when they were digging, they ran into a Roman burial site, a cemetery, basically.
And there were several graves that were found.
Most of them had inscriptions with them.
They found about 20 Roman tombstones.
And the gravestone of Sextus Congenius was moved to a library, where it was on display.
That's where the person who entered it into the collection of Roman inscription saw it.
Later, Sextus's gravestone was moved to a museum near the harbor.
And then in May of 1943...
There was a bombing run.
It was the first of, I think, 87 bombing runs that the Allies made during World War II against various sites in Italy.
So Civitavacchia being a port that Germans were using for supplies and troops moving in and out, was a target, and the harbor especially.
And so they bombed the harbor.
They killed quite a number of people.
And it also very seriously damaged the museum.
The museum director at the time.
He had dug through the ruins and grabbed whatever he could of, salvaged whatever he could of the objects, packed them away and then moved them further inland.
Many of the tombstones from the Roman cemetery were lost and Suzanne couldn't figure out what happened to Sextus Congenius' stone next.
After many months of research, they were no closer to finding out how it had ended up in Daniela's backyard.
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So let's talk about Sextus Congenius Verus, whose gravestone was found in New Orleans.
He served in the military.
Tell me a little bit about the life that he might have lived.
So we know that Sextus Congenius was a Marine, so he served in the Roman Navy and he served in Mycenaeum, so he's serving in Italy now.
Carolina Rangel de Lima studies the Roman world.
The thing about being a Roman soldier is that it really depends on where you're serving and when you're serving what your life was like and essentially, how much danger you'd be in or how exciting your service would be.
But if I'm completely honest...
If I was going to choose a time and place to be a Roman soldier.
You know, serving in Italy in the second century was probably pretty good.
Not likely to be attacked.
You're probably doing kind of everyday tasks that Marines carried out and you're living in...
This beautiful place with lovely weather.
So, you know, it's likely that he didn't really see battle or anything like that.
Marines had all kinds of tasks within the cities that they were stationed in.
We know that they kept vigil over the ships.
The risk of fire and things like that was always very prevalent, so he might have kept watch over ships.
The navy was also an important protection for the grain supplies going into Italy, obviously very, very important going into Rome.
But also we know that Marines did things like manning the awnings in the Colosseum.
So the Colosseum had awnings that were extended.
This was to cast shade over the public.
So, you know, something as simple as that could have been one of his tasks.
A few years ago, Carolina worked on an exhibition at the British Museum about life in the Roman army.
Some of the objects she worked with were letters from Roman soldiers who wrote home.
How did those letters survive him for 2000 years?
Well, most of the letters that survive, survive in Egypt and they're papyri.
And it's about the climate, essentially.
So very, very dry climates like Egypt mean that certain organics like papyri survive.
Carolina says we don't have the same kind of material from the region where Sextus congenius grew up.
According to his gravestone, he was part of the Bessie tribe.
So the Bessie tribe was part of ancient Thrace, and it was set somewhere in modern-day Bulgaria.
And this is a tribe on the outskirts of the Roman Empire, and there's...
A particular concentration of Egyptian and Bessie Marines stationed at Mycenaeum.
So Sextus Congenius probably would have been serving with other men that came from the same tribe as him.
And tell me about his name.
Well, Roman soldiers, particularly auxiliary soldiers, which is what sexus congenius was auxiliary soldiers who were not Roman citizens coming into the Roman army, often would take on Roman names.
So this name is not necessarily the name that... he was born with.
So we have another marine, actually called Appian, who's an Egyptian, and he writes a letter to his father, a standard letter, asking about the health of his sister and his brother and sending his love, telling him about his arrival and joining the Roman army.
And he ends it with my name is now Antonius Maximus which, if you had to make up a Roman name, you couldn't get more Roman than Antonius Maximus.
And he's telling his father so that when his father writes to him he knows to use his Roman name, because that will be how he'll be recognized.
People usually volunteered to join the Roman army.
But since there's little material left from the region sexus congenius came from, we don't really know how people from that area would have felt about joining.
But for Egyptians like Appian and actually there's another soldier called Apollinarius, writing to his mother they seem quite excited about joining the service.
They're, you know.
Obviously they're writing to their families.
Perhaps they don't want to worry them, but they certainly, you know.
Apollinarius tells his mother not to worry about him because he's come to a fine place.
And Appian also certainly seems very positive about it.
So we think that they will have volunteered to join.
There's lots of reasons why they might have.
The Bessie had a particular reputation for having a lot of martial prowess.
So it might be that a lot of them aspired to joining the army.
But also there were a lot of incentives to joining the army, regular pay being obviously crucial.
But also if you were not a citizen of the Roman Empire, as sexus congenius would not have been.
Joining the army was a way in which you could get citizenship.
So if you finish your service, you would be granted Roman citizenship, not just for you, but also for your wife and children, if you had children.
So it was a huge draw for people.
Carolina says a soldier serving in the Navy would be granted citizenship after about 26 years of service.
Why would one want to be a Roman citizen?
So Roman citizens had protection under the law that non-citizens didn't have.
So some of the harshest punishments could not be meted out to Roman citizens.
That's one reason.
What kind of punishments?
Things like crucifixion and beatings and things like that.
If you were a citizen, you would join the Roman legions or you could join the Roman legions.
Auxiliary soldiers were non-citizens.
They got paid less.
So you would get paid more as a Roman legionary and it was very difficult to obtain that citizenship.
This is one of the only ways of doing so.
We know that Sextus Congenius died at 42, after 22 years of service.
So he died before the end of his service.
And we think that about 50 of soldiers that number is very estimated, of course, we can't know made it to the end of their service.
So you sort of have 50-50 on whether you're going to make it to the end.
And 42 is a, people did survive beyond 42.
He likely didn't die in battle.
He probably will have died later. from some other kind of illness or accident, we don't know.
What type of illness would have killed a 42-year-old at that point?
Things like infections that couldn't be treated at the time.
That's probably one of the most common types of illness.
Soldiers were in very close quarters with other soldiers all the time.
So illnesses could spread very quickly and didn't always have treatments.
Carolina says it's possible the soldiers slept and lived on the ships.
Archaeologists haven't found any traces of barracks where they might have lived.
And she says they would have had little to no time off.
They likely cooked for themselves, maybe taking turns among the soldiers.
Soldiers weren't allowed to marry while they were serving.
But Carolina says many of them did so anyway.
Soldiers did take women as their wives, both voluntarily and not.
Some women fell in love with Roman soldiers and got married.
Some soldiers who had enough money purchased concubines who were enslaved women to act as their wives, and they had children with them.
Sextus Congenius probably couldn't afford that.
We can't know for sure.
But he may well have been married.
He may have had children.
The people who set up this gravestone were obviously not a wife and child, but that doesn't mean that A they didn't exist at some point.
They may have passed away before he did, or that they weren't alive at the time, but just not in a position where they could afford to erect a tombstone for him.
The Romans celebrated death in a way that's very different to us, and people had to go and visit your grave and keep your memory alive.
So setting up a gravestone was very important, but it was also expensive and not everyone could do it, and certainly soldiers did struggle.
Now, in this one in particular, we know that he has these two heirs who have set up this stone for him, so he's leaving behind at least someone who misses him.
The last words on Sextus's tombstone read Atilius Carus and Vettius Longinus, his heirs, made this for him well-deserving.
These two men could have been men who served with him.
We also know that some soldiers created a kind of a burial club where they made a kind of deal amongst themselves that they would all set up a tombstone for each other should one of them die, if they didn't have family to do it for them.
So it may mean that he was part of a rather tight-knit group of soldiers that maybe he was living with and working with closely.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I think that's really important when we think about these soldiers as individuals.
They weren't officially allowed to get married.
So their unofficial families would have had to be these soldiers and they would have had to look out for each other.
Wouldn't be surprising that they would form a kind of a close proximity and band of brotherhood with people who'd come from the same place and had traveled so far?
Since we don't know much about Sextus, Carolina told us about another Marine whose letters home have survived.
His name was Claudius Terentianus.
He's quite different to sexus congenius in many respects.
He is a Roman citizen.
He's Egyptian, but he is a Roman citizen.
And as a Roman citizen, he should be able to join the Roman legions.
But unfortunately his letters of recommendation aren't good enough, which should tell you something about you know how difficult it is to get into the Roman army.
Not just anyone could.
But as his letters of recommendation aren't good enough, he has to essentially, in his sort of feeling, slum it with the Marines.
So he is very unhappy, unlike a lot of the soldiers I mentioned who wrote home, who are non-citizens, auxiliary troops, who are very you know, seemingly excited and anticipating great things in joining the Marines.
Tarantianus is begrudging the fact that he couldn't join the legions and is being forced to serve with men like Sextus Congenius, who are, you know non-citizens, in the auxiliary troops.
Claudius Tarantianus wrote home quite a lot.
He wrote to his father quite a lot.
And he complains a lot about his condition.
He talks about being bullied by his comrades.
He wants the best weaponry sent to him.
He also writes to his father about buying a concubine.
So he's clearly got enough money to buy a concubine.
Sounds like Claudius maybe didn't make a lot of friends in the Navy.
No, it certainly doesn't sound like it.
He actually talks a lot about getting his equipment stolen, but also getting his bedding stolen.
While he's ill in an infirmary getting treatment, his bedding gets taken, which we don't know exactly where.
Marines might have slept, but it could well have been on the boat, so quite serious if he gets his bedding stolen there.
So Claudius Terentianus did his time, managed to get some of his dad's influence to get him into the legions later on um, you know, to be honest, he comes across as somewhat of a of a nepo baby um, whose dad kind of got him into the legions.
It sounds like maybe sextus would have been thinking claudius was acting like a baby.
Yeah, we don't know, but you wouldn't put them down as fast friends, would you?
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About seven months after Daniela Santoro found the gravestone for Sextus Congenius in her backyard in New Orleans, a woman named Erin Scott O'Brien, who also lives in New Orleans, was driving her car when she got a phone call.
I was driving my daughter to school in the morning.
I was on the way to drop her off and her dad called and told us to watch the news story that he had sent me, and didn't even tell me what it was about, just sent me the link and told me to call him back as soon as I watched it.
Erin and her 17-year-old daughter opened the link.
So we both were watching the story and as we were watching it just unfolding in front of us, we were in shock at seeing the backyard, our old backyard, being on the news.
Erin says she immediately recognized the backyard.
She'd bought the house about two decades ago with her ex-husband.
They sold the house when her daughter was 10 years old.
We just, like, we were watching the video, looked at each other, and looked at the video.
And she was like, I was playing...
In the same yard as, you know, a tombstone from a Roman soldier.
The stone had been in the backyard for most of the time that Erin had owned the house.
Erin knows that for sure because she and her ex-husband had put it there.
She says they had no idea how old the stone really was.
They thought it was a replica of some type.
They had first placed the stone in an old fireplace in the living room as a decorative item.
My ex-husband moved it around through the house in different parts, but eventually it ended up in the garden, just because that's where we planted a tree, kind of built a garden around the tree and he put it there as kind of a decorative stone.
And that's where it ended up eventually.
And it was forgotten there just because when we moved, we... didn't remember that's where it was.
Erin says the stone had been in her family for a long time.
It had belonged to her grandparents, but no one had any idea what it was.
Tell me about your grandparents.
Who were they?
My grandfather was a singer.
He taught voice lessons, but he did go to Italy during World War II.
And that's where he met my grandmother, who was Italian, who was a violin player.
And they met... during the war there, and they got married over in Italy.
From what I understand, when my grandmother got pregnant with my uncle, the plan was for him to be born in the United States.
So she came over first and he, my grandfather, stayed because he I believe that he was injured in some way and had to stay back in Europe.
So she came over on a boat.
She came through Ellis Island.
And somehow Aaron's grandfather brought the gravestone from Italy to the US, where he and his wife settled in New Orleans.
But Aaron says no one in her family knows how her grandparents got a hold of the stone in the first place.
My grandfather didn't really speak a lot about the war or much about his time there.
So they don't really know much about that time.
Many American soldiers came back from Europe with souvenirs.
Some soldiers brought back pieces of silverware and things like bed sheets from Hitler's personal homes and bunkers after Germany had lost the war.
I mean, do you think your grandfather had any idea what this stone that he had brought back was?
I can't imagine that he would have.
I feel like that's something that, if that's something that you know what you have, it seems like that's something that you would share with somebody.
I just don't think that he knew of what he had.
Both of her grandparents died in the 1980s when Erin was around 10 years old, and many of their belongings, including the Roman gravestone, went to Erin's parents.
After Katrina, Erin says her parents moved and passed some of her grandparents' things on to her.
You know, I've always felt very connected.
My grandmother, you know, I went over there a lot to their house.
My grandmother was an artist.
She painted.
We painted pictures with her.
It was a very special time, you know.
They both passed away within a year of each other, so...
And I just, I was very, their things were, you know, just very important.
So my parents gave me a lot of their things.
I mean, so you've lived with this stone around you your whole life.
Exactly.
My whole life.
And I would have just brought it to my house, you know, if I would have remembered it.
Because moving into my new house with two kids, that's just hectic.
And I still have not even unpacked everything.
I have a shed, so I put a lot of things in the shed.
So I didn't miss it.
But I mean, it had to happen that way.
It had to happen that I forgot it.
The best people who knew what it was knew it was something important found it, brought it to someone who could put it in the right hands and it's going back to its home.
So it makes me happy that it's going back to where it belongs.
Erin says she was told that the stone was in very good condition.
So I didn't feel as bad that it was kept outside.
I was very worried that it might have ruined it.
But they said that it's in great condition.
So I really am happy about that.
I mean, it's kind of if you had to forget one thing a gravestone that was meant to be outside probably is the right thing.
Exactly right.
In April of 2026, the gravestone of Sextus Congenius Verus was returned to Italy in a big repatriation ceremony, along with more than 300 other objects.
One was a marble head of Alexander the Great, which was stolen from a museum in Rome in 1960 and was eventually purchased by an American art dealer.
And more than 20 objects had been seized by the district attorney from the Metropolitan Museum in New York, including Roman drinking cups in silver and a pair of gold earrings.
Suzanne Lusnia, the professor of classical studies at Tulane University who first found out where Sextus Congenius' stone had come from, told a reporter.
I think that those of us in New Orleans who experienced Hurricane Katrina understand the joy that accompanies the return of things that we thought were lost forever.
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I'm Phoebe Judge, and this is love.
