Celts: The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe by Martin J. Dougherty, 2024
Before the Vikings, before the Anglo-Saxons, before the Roman Empire, the Celts dominated central and western Europe. Today we might think of the Celts only inhabiting parts of the far west of Europe – Ireland, Great Britain, France and Spain – but these were the extremities in which their culture lasted longest.
@appassionato@bookstodon In fact, the object on the front page of the book was found in Denmark, and probably made somewhere in Ukraine, two millennia ago.
It is the Gundestrup kettle, in the National Museum in Copenhagen.
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