A Venus Motif Ring — Last Seen 1,700 Years Ago — In Northern France / Brittany…

These sorts of finds will always fire my imagination -- whose finger did this last adorn? Was she royal? Or was she just very, very lucky?

And, why the warring version of Venus? It clearly was not made for a man's hand. Was it dropped plunder from a road robbery? How did it come to rest between cobblestone cracks in that long abandoned roadway?

In any event, here is the latest:

. . .Archaeologists in France recently unearthed a 1,700-year-old ring engraved with an ancient religious motif. The ornately decorated artifact was unearthed during an excavation in Pacé, a small town in Brittany, according to a December 19 news release from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP).

Specifically, archaeologists found the ring while digging up an ancient road. . . and it depicts the "war-like" version of Venus. . . .

This mystery (whose -- and how and why) is unlikely to be unraveled, even with the passage of another 2,000 years' time. Onward, to a new year!

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