celtic

Become a Patron! Embalmed heads of the Celtic Iron Age in the south of France. Journal of Archaeological Science Strabo’s Geography (translated by Horace Leonard Jones) [...Read More...]

The Celts of the Iron age—roughly 600s BC to 43 AD—had a real preoccupation with severed heads. They took heads in battle. They displayed the heads of their enemies in [...Read More...]

The Pictish Beast is a mysterious animal carved on Pictish standing stones. Nobody knows what kind of animal it is. But it must have been really important to the Picts, as [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our ancient sources for this episode include: Plutarch’s On the Bravery of Women (Loeb Classical Library edition) Cassius Dio’s Roman History [...Read More...]

Become a Patron!   Here is a lego reproduction of that ubiquitous Lionel Royer painting of Vergincetorix throwing down his arms before Caesar. We don’t know if [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our modern and ancient sources were pretty much the same for this episode as the last one: The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe The Celts: Search for a [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our modern sources for this episode included: The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe The Celts: Search for a Civilization by Alice Roberts Adrian [...Read More...]

This episode is a whole divided into three parts. In Part 1, we send Julius Caesar and his army on a collision course toward the people of Gaul. This is an unstoppable force [...Read More...]

What can a story from ancient Ireland tell us about the Gauls before Caesar? Maybe a lot. The Hound of Ulster is synonymous with Irish history. But it also draws back the [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Thanks for joining us on that wild chariot ride! We will seriously never stop hearing Genn’s Warp Spasm Voice in our heads. It narrates our every [...Read More...]