Above 1,800 years old marble head unearthed in Israel

Archaeologists in Israel have been discovered what they believed in it is the bust of a Roman boxer from the second or third century.
It seems that what we have be here is a unique find, then the two directors of the excavation said in a statement released Monday by the Israel Antiquities Authority of the archaeology Research.
The figurine, made of the marble, comes from a time when in the art of Roman sculpture is reached in its zenith, Doron Ben Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets .
It is tiny only about 6 centimeters height by 4 centimeters width, Ben Ami told in CNN That is why it is so much impressive. It is so small, but still you can see every little detail on the marble.
The archaeologists believed to a merchant family from the eastern part of the Roman Empire most in likely passed down the precious object through in to the generations of until the fourth or fifth century, when an unfortunate family member had it with him at a public building, perhaps a hostel and an earthquake struck.