Two 1,700-Year-Old Roman Marble Statues Surface Inside an Ancient Wine Vat in Israel

An archeological excavation conducted ahead of a railway expansion near Binyamina in northern Israel has uncovered two well-preserved statues from the late Roman period. The news was reported June 15 by the Israeli Antiques Authority (IAA), which carried out the excavation.Dating to approximately the 4th century CE, the marble busts are thought to depict prominent figures from the Greco-Roman world, with one bearing an inscription with the name “Lycurgus.” According to Dr. Peter Gend