21 Oct '12, 11am

Curious Cat Discovers 2,000-Year-Old Catacomb

Curious Cat Discovers 2,000-Year-Old Catacomb

Spanish archaeologists claim they have found the exact spot where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death on March 15, 44 B.C.E. in Rome. But it is possible that a cat is one-upping them in detecting archaeological finds in the Eternal City. This past Tuesday, a cat chanced upon a 2,000-year-old catacomb in a residential area of Rome near the Via di Pietralata. Mirko Curti and a friend followed the cat from their apartment building to a low rock cliff of tufa, a porous stone that has been used for digging tombs over millennia due to its softness. Curti and his friend heard the cat meowing and, following it, discovered themselves in a small opening in a cliff full of niches like those the ancient Romans dug into the rock to hold funeral urns. Around their feet was a telltale sign of where they were, human bones. Archaeologists summoned to investigate said that the tomb probably ...

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