Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World - The Celts 1

This is the first part of a brief documentary that explains a historical point of view about the Celtic people. Later, I will put the second part..Enjoy it!

TIME LINE !!!

Here, in this link: http://www.unc.edu/celtic/mapsindex.html I found a time line whichs explains, the developement since the celtic culture appear in Europe at the "Hallstat Period" B.C. It is really nice and after reading you can have an idea of how important the Celtic people were.

Geographical Ubication

The Celtic culture is one that has touched the hearts of most nations. They were touched either by war, through trade and/or artistic beauty.

A small example of these cultures would be: Britain, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France (i.e. Gaul), Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Russia and the United States. 

Even the map is in spanish, there are some registers that explain the expansion of Celtic people in Europe. The Celts first known homeland was actually in Central Asia - East and West Turkestan, which is N/NW of Tibet. Celtic remains, relics and burial sites have been found by British Archaeological expeditions dating back to the 1920's and still continuing today (with the permission of the Chinese governement). 

Also, the Celts of Central and Eastern Europe were mixed Alpine, Nordic, Dinaric proper, Noric (Northern Dinaric), Mediterranean (in the Balkan Peninsula) Borreby-Nordic and other. The Celts who settled in Asia Minor (Galatians) came from the valleys of the Danube and the Rhine. The Nordic Celts were very few in the Danube area, were found to some extent on the banks of the Rhine and formed the majority of the Celtic population only at the mouth of the Rhine, on the North Sea coast. Overall in the mentioned areas, the Alpine type seemed to be the most common, coexisting with several others. while the Nordics (proper, Borreby, Brünn, Falo-Dalisch and other) consisted a rather limited portion of the total Celtic population (more than 10.000.000 around 200BC). The only Celtic areas where the Alpine type was not the most common, were the lands of the Celtiberians and Lusitanians, Gallic Thrace (Tylis) and the British Islands, where the Meds and the Atlanto-Meds have been the commonest type.

WHY?

I'm really interested in the origen, history and culture of  Celtic people, that is the main reason I decided to choose this topic as the center of my blog and I'm going to present some celtic facts, mithology, art, science, traditions and more.... hope you enjoy it! 

Note: The celtics had NO written language, according to all historical registers and information. Therefore, all history, laws, knowledge etc. Had to be memorized and transmited verbally from one generation to the next. The "barbs" would then recite that knowledge back to the clan as required.