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 ...
In the United States, Halloween has boomed into the second-largest commercial holiday, generating billions in sales annually. While many Costa Ricans have adopted this tradition, others reject it as ...
The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...
One of the possible origins of telling ghost stories on Halloween ties to ancient Celts! One possible origin for telling scary stories around Halloween is found thousands of years ago with the Celts ...
A professor of Celtic studies at a Welsh university has written a scathing review of a new book claiming that there was no such thing as Celts. Professor Patrick Sims-Williams, a professor of Welsh ...
Celts celebrated the festival of Samhain on October 31 to mark the start of a new year. Thinking that on this night the dead would rise again, they carved scary faces into turnips to ward off evil ...
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