An 1,800-year-old gold ring with a carving depicting Venus, a Roman goddess associated with victory, has been discovered in ...
Made of gold and onyx, and uncovered in spectacular condition, the ring bears an engraving of “Venus the Victorious” — and tells a fascinating story about Brittany’s Roman history.
Emmanuelle Collado / INRAP Around the second or third century C.E., a gold ring bearing the likeness of the Roman goddess Venus was lost on a road in what is now Brittany, France. The exact ...
French archaeologists have discovered artifacts and sites spanning multiple centuries, from the Late Bronze Age to the ...
Archaeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) discovered a 1,800-year-old gold ring carved with the image of Venus Victrix near the town of Pacé ...
A dig site in Pacé, Brittany has thus far turned up artifacts from the Late Bronze Age through to the medieval era ...