Modern Celtic languages – including Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Breton and Cornish – all derive from these earlier tongues, and similarities remain visible. Dr Rodway, senior lecturer in ...

Linguists at Aberystwyth University have launched the first comprehensive dictionary to capture every known word of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland between 325 BC and AD 500. The ...

Linguists at Aberystwyth University are assembling what they say will be the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.

Upon the hilt of this Celtic sword there is an image of a Celtic warrior, intended to enhance the power of the owner. The head with omega-shaped and finely drawn hair also has large almond-shaped eyes ...

Direct evidence for what people ate and drank in ancient times has traditionally been hard to come by. But now, new technology is enabling scientists to cast light on the consumption habits of people ...

Visualisation of the central grave/main burial of the Grafenbühl mound New genetic analysis of two princes’ within a pair of Germany’s most well-preserved Celtic burial mounds confirms a ...

Ancient writings often describe how Celts in the Iron Age would remove the heads of their enemies to keep as trophies. Impressive, sure, and a great conversation piece at parties, but how would they ...

In a story seemingly fit for Game of Thrones, an ornate Iron Age shield that was unearthed from a “warrior grave” is now being deemed “the most important British Celtic art object of the millennium,” ...

Nearly 350 artifacts have been unearthed during research at the Łysa Góra archaeological site in Poland, including a rare 2,300-year-old Celtic helmet, providing further confirmation of the Celtic ...

The remains of a dog buried next to a baby Laffranchi et al., 2024, CC-BY 4.0 Almost two decades ago, when construction unearthed a 2,000-year-old Celtic cemetery in what’s now the Italian city of ...

The chance discovery of ancient bones under an Irish pub in the mid-2000s has cast doubt over whether Irish people are actually related to the ancient Celts at all. In 2006, Bertie Currie was clearing ...

Long before pumpkins and gourds ruled over late October, root vegetables reigned supreme. But it wasn’t just in the name of spooky fun. In the 19th and early 20th century, people in Ireland and other ...