unless it were that Heaven might fall on them," wrote the first century B.C. Greek writer Strabo, as translated by Horace Jones. By the third century B.C., Celts occupied a large portion of Europe ...

The earliest-known Celtic calendar is the Coligny calendar, now in the Palais des Arts in Lyon, France. It dates probably from the 1st century BC and is made up of bronze fragments, once a single ...

The shift westward began around 700 BC and continued into the first two centuries ... Britain in the 5th century AD, marauding Germanic tribes further isolated the Celts in the north and west ...

The gold coin, minted in the second or first century B.C., features ... Bavaria's oldest Celtic coins date to the third century B.C., but the Roman conquest of the region in 15 B.C. led to the ...

With respect to the British Isles, the term "Celtic" came into vogue in the 18th century to describe pre-Roman civilizations there, but the extent to which they should be considered part of a ...

The first part is about the origin and development ... This was finally established by 19th-century German scholars when Celtic was identified as a separate branch of the Indo-European family ...

Before, only one other, much newer Celtic helmet had been discovered: a first-century piece found in the southern village of Siemiechów. The Łysa Góra helmet is at least 2,300 years old.