A 13-year-old boy hiking with his father near an Israeli quarry unearthed a nearly two-millennia-old ring engraved with the image of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and battle, officials said.

which will become a vibrant “work and leisure” space called Minerva House. It will be named after the fabled Roman deity, who was the goddess of wisdom, medicine, the arts, and a patron of ...