The ancient history of Poland is more connected with Goths and other local tribes than with the Celts. However, during many excavations archaeologists have discovered links between the modern territory of Poland and old Celtic tribes.
Know more about the Celts, the Picts and their intertwined histories and destinies.
How are the English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish inter-related through the Celts?
The exhibition, called Celts: Art and Identity, will begin in London in September and continue in Edinburgh in March 2016.
In recent years fervor has arisen among archaeologists from Ireland and Great Britain on how to define ‘Celticity’ in the 21st century. Previous conclusions about ‘Celticity’ in the 19th and 20th centuries defined all tribal communities in...
The Picts were an amalgam of tribes who lived in the eastern and north eastern regions of Scotland during the ancient and early medieval period.
Ireland reaches out and grabs you. It lures you in with extraordinary green landscapes, good food and drink, and hospitable people, and keeps you there with history, music, and new friends. If you’re planning a trip to Ireland, or just thinking about things to do for St. Patrick’s Day, we’ve got you covered.
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Most of the nations in modern-day Central, Western, and Northern Europe can be described as either Nordic, Germanic, or Celtic. But it's definitely no
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With settlements stretching from Ireland to Turkey, this Iron Age culture used their metalworking skills to build extensive trade networks with ancient Greece and Rome.
In this episode of megalithic madness we take a look at the crazy online rumours that stonehenge was BUILT/CREATED in the 1950s. There are many well documented images of Stonehenge drawn & pain…
The Battle of Penn Hill was fought in AD 665 between a British and an Anglo-Saxon coalition at Penn Hill in northern Dumnonia, the precise location of which is unknown. It resulted in a decisive British victory, and reversed the Saxon expansion westwards across Albion. Germanic migrants, mainly from the Angle, Saxon and Jutish tribes, began arriving on the east coast of Albion in the mid-5th century, during the chaos following the Roman withdrawal from the provinces of Britannia. They quickly pe
This article outlines some of the most famous stories from Celtic myths, including the tales of King Arthur and the children of Lir.
One of the stranger ancient scripts one might come across, Ogham is also known as the 'Celtic Tree Alphabet'. Estimated to have been used from the fourth to the tenth century CE, it is believed to have...
How are the English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish inter-related through the Celts?
Researchers from Queens University Belfast compared the DNA of a Stone Age farmer from Belfast with the remains of three Bronze Age males found in County Down.
The Visigoths were the western tribe of the Goths (a Germanic people) who settled west of the Black Sea sometime in the 3rd century CE. According to the scholar Herwig Wolfram, the Roman writer Cassiodorus...
…a terrible disaster occurred in Britain. Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island was lost to Rome. Moreover, all this ruin was brou…
In recent years fervor has arisen among archaeologists from Ireland and Great Britain on how to define ‘Celticity’ in the 21st century. Previous conclusions about ‘Celticity’ in the 19th and 20th centuries defined all tribal communities in...
This beautiful silver tetradrachm is a Kroisbach type with Reiterstumpf variant minted by an unknown Celtic tribe. It shows the bare head of Apollo on the obverse. The reverse shows a rider on a...
The age old rivalry between Cornwall and Devon has been highlighted by DNA research showing that even today the populations are two distinct groups…
A NETWORK of remote caves where people were 'sacrificed' and children's heads gruesomely displayed on poles has been uncovered by archaeologists.
A glimpse into the history of Belgium's origins and the revolution that came to shape a nation and its identity within Europe
Dinefwr was the ancient capital of Deheubarth from the early 10th century, from the time of Hywell ap Cadell (Hywell the Good). Rhys ap Tewdwr (d. 1093), a descendent of Hywell, was the last true king...
History of the Heptarchy, the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England.
Saint Sigebert King and martyr, date of birth unknown; died about 637, was the stepbrother of Earpwald, king of the East Angles. During the reign of Redwald he lived an exile in Gaul where he received baptism and became an ardent Christian. Earpwald died about 627, and East Anglia seems to have relapsed into anarchy […]
