Old Ring Featuring 'Venus the Victorious' Found on Road in France, May Have Belonged to a Traveler Speculations about an ...

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 ...

Its gemstone bears a carving of Venus Victrix, which translates to "Venus the Victorious," according to INRAP. The gemstone is a nicolo, or a type of onyx that is cut so it has a faint bluish ...

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 ...