{"id":11700,"date":"2026-05-01T18:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/11700\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:25:14","slug":"relic-found-in-new-orleans-womans-backyard-returned-to-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/11700\/","title":{"rendered":"Relic found in New Orleans woman’s backyard returned to Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWDSU FIRST WARNING SEVEN DAY FORECAST. RANDI A ROMAN RELIC, THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD, WAS DISCOVERED HERE IN NEW ORLEANS, AND IT\u2019S BACK IN ITALY THIS AFTERNOON. THE LOCAL FBI OFFICE SAYS THAT A WOMAN FOUND A ROMAN IMPERIAL PERIOD GRAVE MARKER WHILE SHE WAS CLEANING UP HER BACKYARD IN MAY OF LAST YEAR, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW I GOT HERE. WELL, SHE TURNED IT OVER TO THE FBI, WHO COORDINATED THE MARKER\u2019S RETURN. AND THEN A SPECIAL CEREMONY WAS HELD IN ROME TO RETURN THE MARKER AND AN URN WITH POSSIBLE SAINT\u2019S REMAINS INSIDE THAT WERE AL\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Rome receives ancient relic found in New Orleans woman’s backyard<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 1:14 PM CDT May 1, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Roman grave marker from the imperial period, discovered in a New Orleans backyard, has been returned to Italy during a special ceremony in Rome. The New Orleans FBI office said a woman found the grave marker while cleaning her backyard in May 2022. She turned it over to the FBI, which coordinated its return. The ceremony also included the return of an urn, recovered by the FBI in Boston, that may contain a saint\u2019s remains.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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A Roman grave marker from the imperial period, discovered in a New Orleans backyard, has been returned to Italy during a special ceremony in Rome. <\/p>\n

The New Orleans FBI office said a woman found the grave marker while cleaning her backyard in May 2022. <\/p>\n

She turned it over to the FBI, which coordinated its return. <\/p>\n

The ceremony also included the return of an urn, recovered by the FBI in Boston, that may contain a saint\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WDSU FIRST WARNING SEVEN DAY FORECAST. RANDI A ROMAN RELIC, THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD, WAS DISCOVERED HERE IN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8669,1974,7768,8677,5,8674,8673,8667,8672,8671,8670,27,8676,8668,8675],"class_list":["post-11700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rome","tag-backyard","tag-boston","tag-fbi","tag-imperial-period","tag-italy","tag-may","tag-new-orleans-fbi-office","tag-new-orleans-woman","tag-relic","tag-return","tag-roman-grave-marker","tag-rome","tag-saint","tag-special-ceremony","tag-urn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}