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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

An ancient Celtic coin that was hidden from the world for more than two thousand years was recently plucked from the Earth by ...

Archeological evidence hints that during the Iron Age, almost all of Western Europe was at war. Hundreds of Iron Age weapons that belonged to the Celts have been unearthed from ancient settlements — ...

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 ...

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 ...