Cat's Grotto Hideaway an Ancient Tomb

In a story of the living and the dead, two Romans followed a cat into a grotto and discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb. This happened not many years ago but mere days ago.

Seems the men found a cat in a residential area near one of the city's main streets and then, when the cat disappeared into a grotto, followed it inside. What they found was human bones in various places on the floor and niches on the walls similar to what ancient Romans used to hold funeral urns.

Sure enough, archaeologists arriving at the scene later confirmed the discovery of a burial chamber, dating from between the 1st Century B.C. and the 2nd Century A.D. The bones, the archaeologists said, probably fell from a higher spot.

As to why the tomb hadn't been discovered before, the theory is that recent heavy rains have caused erosion that sheared away what had been rocks that, intentionally or not, had concealed the chamber.

What to call the newly found chamber? A cat - a - comb, of course.