Two 2,300-year-old swords discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis in France "have few equivalents in Europe," and one is ...

At the top of the archaeological site of Creuzier-le-Neuf, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, a team from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) has uncovered an ...

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

A Celtic warrior was injured in battle 2,500 years ago. Archaeologists were able to identify the weapon based on 3D scans of his skeleton.

Archaeologists in Italy recently uncovered an Iron-Age graveyard in which people were buried alongside animals. One grave ...

Celts drank Greek wine according to a recent study of ceramic containers which have been excavated from a hillfort site in ...

The Beltane Fire Festival is an annual event that takes place on Calton Hill in the Scottish capital. It takes the form of a ...

Around 2,500 years ago, an elite Celtic warrior was gravely injured ... researchers analyzed a skeleton found in an Iron Age burial mound after noticing severe trauma to the pelvis.

In Germany, the last night of April is celebrated as Walpurgis Night, a name it takes from an 8th-century abbess revered in ...

If it took Iron Age man that much effort, perhaps it should be called the Sweat Age. The survivors celebrate the Celtic new year, burning, amid emotional scenes, a huge wicker man. When the final ...

British archaeologist Nina Crummy has suggested that “hare-motif” brooches from the Late Iron Age and Late Roman Period, found clustered in areas associated with Eostre, might indicate the existence ...