1,700-year-old Roman marble statues found buried in ancient winepress near Caesarea (opens in new tab)

Archaeologists working near Binyamina, Israel, have uncovered two marble statues dating to the Roman period, roughly 1,700 years ago. The find came from a site containing a Roman-Byzantine winepress. Inside a wine collection pit, archaeologists uncovered two marble protomes, sculptures showing the head and upper torso of a person. The statues portray figures from the […]