1,700-year-old Roman marble busts unveiled at Tel Aviv museum after Binyamina railway dig

The Israel Antiquities Authority unveiled two exquisitely preserved Roman-era marble protomes discovered in a wine-collection pit at Binyamina-Giv'at Ada during the 'Connecting Israel' coastal-rail expansion. Standing about 55 cm tall and weighing 60 kg each, one bust carries a Greek inscription naming Lycurgus. Archaeologists called it a 'once-in-a-lifetime discovery,' with the last comparable find in Israel dating to the 1990s. The statues are on public display at MUZA, the Eretz Israel Museum, throughout the summer.