Discovered: 2,600 Year Old Artwork Depicting A Woman Giving Birth Is That Of Venus Giving Birth To Aeneas

POUSSIN, Nicolas

Venus Presenting Arms to Aeneas (detail)

1639

The Dardanians were led by brave Aeneas, whom Venus bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida. Iliad BK II Homer (800 B.C.)

Are you the great Aeneas, known to fame,
Who from celestial seed your lineage claim?
The same Aeneas whom fair Venus bore
To fam'd Anchises on th' Idaean shore?
Aeneid BK I Virgil (19 B.C.)

Daily Mail

Archaeologists have discovered two pieces of astonishing art dating back around 2,600 years depicting a woman giving birth - the oldest such image ever found in the western world.

The artefacts were at the heart of an ancient Etruscan settlement in Italy’s Mugello Valley, near Florence.

The incredible images were on a small fragment from a ceramic vessel dating back to around 600 BC, and show the head and shoulders of a baby emerging from a mother, believed to be a goddess.

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