When people think of the historical “Celts,” they are really thinking of the various peoples that lived across the European ...

Much of the literature that currently exists on Celtic peoples and their objects is from the field of archaeology. The ...

Neuf, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, a team from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) has uncovered an extensive necropolis dated to the Iron Age. Although soil c ...

Ancient Greeks and Romans including Cicero, Caesar, Pliny, Tacitus spoke admiringly of Celtic astronomy. Did the druids know planets moved in ellipses? The object has original patina and has not ...

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This small but unique object contains the only surviving words written in British Celtic. Although we can read the letters on it, we don't know what it says because no-one wrote Celtic down.