I WAS HOPING IT WAS PROOF OF ROMAN SETTLEMENT IN LOUISIANA, BUT IT’S JUST WAR BOOTY: Mysterious Stone in US Backyard Turns Out to Be an Archaeological Treasure. “The grave marker was among those later listed as missing. Its exact measurements, as recorded by the museum, matched those of the tablet found in Santoro and Lopez’s garden. Exactly how the stone traveled from wartime Italy to suburban Louisiana remained an equally fascinating saga. According to Erin Scott O’Brien, the Carrollton house’s former owner, the tablet had been on display in a cabinet containing other heirlooms in the Gentilly house of her grandfather, Charles Paddock Jr., a soldier stationed in Italy during WWII.”