Rare 1,700-year-old relic accidentally uncovered during child’s hunt stuns archaeologists

A child's recent show-and-tell find turned out to be something unusual: a 1,700-year-old Roman statuette fragment.

Dor Wolynitz, an 8-year-old from Rehovot, Israel, found the artifact during a visit to the Ramon Crater in the Negev Desert of southern Israel, according to a May 11 release from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).

Wolynitz was at a family weekend retreat organized by a paratrooper reserve unit when he stumbled across the fragment, which dates to the fourth century...