That is a really weird article. Who wrote this?

Well last spring Dr. Daniella Santoro and her husband were pulling up six years of overgrown vines.

This reads like a private blog post.

said the homeowner Dr. Daniella Santoro.

Weird to repeat her entire name.

Daniella is an expert in cultural anthropology and teaches at Tulane. So, she got the help of UNO archeologist […]

She’s an expert so obviously she needed someone else.

It had come from Italy that it had come from the city of Civitavecchia which in Roman times was known as Centumcellae.

???

It was the marker for a member of the Roman Imperial Navy,

Or was it maybe the marker of the grave, you think?

from the 2nd century, that’s around 100 AD.

You don’t say.

We’d like to see that you get it back,” Dr. Lusnia said to the museum workers.

This is now a children’s book.

“And the internet, all of AI, all that at my fingertips, could not have located and understood and identified this object if it was not for them,” said Dr. Santoro.

Huh? (Edit: oh you mean those PhDs. Okay. Sure.)

Dr. Lusnia researched and combed database after database, and found the tombstone had been missing from a museum in Italy since it was bombed in 1943 during World War II. It had come from Italy that it had come from the city of Civitavecchia which in Roman times was known as Centumcellae.

Not some Romans in the new world thing.

A strange read indeed. The author is the reporter, Meg Farris. I think she trained for the camera and not the pen.

This is where AI could have helped her restructure her narrative and grammar, but I hate saying that because most folks would have submitted what the AI gave back verbatim without any proofreading or edits to the copy.