2000-year-old Roman tombstone was found in New York

American archaeologists are buzzing before a mysterious Roman tombstone has just been discovered in the most unexpected place: Westchester County, New York - one of America's wealthiest neighborhoods.

While building a million-dollar house, the workers suddenly found an ancient Roman tombstone with strange Latin words. How can an ancient Roman object appear on the other side of the globe?

New Roman stela was found in America.(Photo: Sciencealert).

According to the US press, it is most likely brought by the wealthy American.Westchester County is home to many of the richest families in the world such as the Rockefellers, Astors or Morgans . from the 19th century to the present.

The land where the Roman stele was discovered was once owned by Standard Oil's Josiah Macy, owned by John Rockefeller, the head of the powerful American oil empire and the world. After Macy's death in late 1800, his wife continued to live here.

According to the American press, in 1893, she made a trip to Villa Borghese in Rome and bought an ancient monument and transported it to her home. Nearly a century later, the house was burned, all buried in ruins and relics have been preserved since then.

After the tombstone was found, researchers from the Metropolitan Museum of Art were invited. They determined the object was crafted around 54 - nearly 2,000 years ago. On the stele, write the words: "Belong to a tax collector named Tiberius Claudius Saturninus". According to experts, Saturninus was a man who worked as a tax collector under Emperor Claudius and this made the tombstone even more valuable.