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An archaeological excavation<\/a> in Israel recently revealed ancient faces that haven’t been seen in centuries.<\/p>\n

Two statues were discovered near Binyamina, Israel, according to a June 15 press release from the Israel\u00a0Antiquities Authority (IAA).<\/p>\n

Archaeologists were digging ahead of construction of a coastal high-speed railway when they found two marble statues in the wine collection pit of a\u00a0Roman-Byzantine winepress, the IAA said.<\/p>\n

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The statues, which date back around 1,700 years, depict two unknown figures from the ancient Greco-Roman world<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the statues bears a Greek inscription with the name “Lycurgus,” according to officials.<\/p>\n

Michael Sorotskin, an IAA archaeologist who helped find the statues, called the discovery “simply wondrous.”<\/p>\n

“While digging the winepress, something was sticking out of the ground, and the workers called me,” said Sorotskin in the release. “There was a feeling that we were about to discover something that really shouldn’t be there.”<\/p>\n

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“Suddenly, we saw that this was not the usual pottery \u2013 it was marble,” he added. “Then, slowly, slowly, the two statues were revealed. I’m still struggling to find the right words.”<\/p>\n

Eliran Oren and Avishag Reiss, the excavation<\/a> directors for the project, said the statues were found “neatly laid, face down.” It appeared they had been intentionally buried when the winepress went out of use.<\/p>\n

“At present, it is not known why the statues were hidden here \u2013 perhaps to preserve them,” Oren and Reiss said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.”<\/p>\n

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“It was very unexpected, but somehow, the really big discoveries always turn up on the excavation\u2019s very last day,” they added.<\/p>\n

Peter Gendelman, a Caesarea region expert from the IAA, said the discovery was the first of its kind in roughly three decades.<\/p>\n

The “Lycurgus” statue could depict two different men, one named Lycurgus of Sparta and another named Lycurgus of Athens, Gendelman said.<\/p>\n

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“Possibly this statue may prove to be one of these two historical figures, but our research is just beginning,” he said.<\/p>\n

The statues were likely displayed in public buildings or the homes of wealthy residents during the Roman period as a way to “connect themselves to the cultural and spiritual world<\/a> of antiquity,” the expert noted.<\/p>\n

“Not far from the discovery site, remains of a bathhouse were previously uncovered, and it is possible that the statues decorated a luxurious villa of a Caesarea resident,” he said.<\/p>\n

Researchers are currently cleaning and conserving the statues before analyzing them further, in hopes of determining exactly whom they depict.<\/p>\n

The discovery is the latest in a series of notable archaeological finds announced by Israeli researchers this year.<\/p>\n

Earlier this May, IAA officials said a child’s chance discovery<\/a> in the Negev Desert led to the identification of a 1,700-year-old Roman-era statuette fragment.<\/p>\n

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At around the same time, archaeologists uncovered a “mysterious and impressive” ancient tunnel near Jerusalem<\/a>, not far from sites associated with the biblical Kingdom of Judah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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