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 ...

The trepanation tool, which looks like a blade on which the end point was sharpened into a spike, came from a site once ...

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 ...

In a remarkable breakthrough for archaeology and ancient medical history, a 2,300-year-old tool used for skull surgery has ...

An ancient Celtic Festival, the Catholic Church, the Irish Potato Famine, and community leaders turned Halloween into the holiday we know today. Here's the history.

In a surprising turn of events during routine surveys for a new motorway, archaeologists have uncovered a vast Celtic ...

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.

For millennia, couples have had to decide where to live. "For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, "societies were centered around ties of ...