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Celtic Belt Buckle
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Celtic Belt Buckle

Celtic belt buckle, 5th century BCE. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Germany.
Celtic Regenbogenschüsselchen
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Celtic Regenbogenschüsselchen

An example of a Celtic coin known as a regenbogenschüsselchen of southern Germany and Bohemia. Electrum, 5th-1st century BCE.
Celtic Coin from Thrace Copying Greek Inscription
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Celtic Coin from Thrace Copying Greek Inscription

Early Iron Age Celtic people copied Greek coins, often faithfully reproducing their designs and inscriptions. This suggests that Thracian die-engravers were illiterate, as legible Greek letters were gradually replaced by abstract patterns...
Celtic Coin Copying Greek Inscription
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Celtic Coin Copying Greek Inscription

Early Iron Age Celtic people copied Greek coins, often faithfully reproducing their designs and inscriptions. This suggests that Thracian die-engravers were illiterate, as legible Greek letters were gradually replaced by abstract patterns...
Celtic Wine-Serving Vessels
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Celtic Wine-Serving Vessels

Celtic vessels used for serving wine. Found in Waldalgesheim, western Germany. 330-320 BCE. (Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany)
Celtic Penannular Brooch
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Celtic Penannular Brooch

A Celtic penannular brooch from Burgos, Spain. Made prior to the 1st century CE (Iron Age). Made of a copper alloy. Diameter: 5 cm. (British Museum, London)
Celtic Burial Mounds
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Celtic Burial Mounds

Reconstructions of Celtic burial mounds dating to the La Tène period (5th to 1st century BCE). The mounds were surrounded by circular ditches of 0.6 metres and 1.2 metres. European Archaeological Park of Bliesbruck-Reinheim, Germany / France...
Celtic Bowl, Schwarzenbach Burial
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Celtic Bowl, Schwarzenbach Burial

A Celtic bowl with embossed gold leaf decoration from the princely burial at Schwarzenbach, Rhineland, Germany. 5th century BCE. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
Ghosts in the Ancient World
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Ghosts in the Ancient World - The Return of the So-Called Dead

A belief in an afterlife was central to every major civilization of the ancient world and this encouraged the recognition of the reality of ghosts as the spirits of the departed who, for one reason or another, either returned from the realm...
Celtic Oppidum Reconstruction
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Celtic Oppidum Reconstruction

A reconstruction illustration of the main gate of the Celtic oppidum (hilltop fort) of Arola in Spain. Oppida were built in the 3rd century BCE to 1st century CE in Celtic Europe. (Archaeological Museum, Bilbao)
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