In 2007, the Celtic linguist John Koch met up with Barry Cunliffe, and told him that some scholars were describing some inscriptions on ancient stone stelae from southwestern Portugal as ‘Celtic’.

we’re defining Celts as people who speak Celtic, can we really find Celts as early as the fifth millennium BC?

Among the most richly furnished of all the Hallstatt burials is that of the Hochdorf Prince.

who ruled for eighty years and lived to the ripe old age of 120. Later Roman writers, including Pliny the Elder, would extend this to an even more impressive 150 years. John thought it possible that this legend of longevity came about because ‘Arganthonios’ was an official name for a king, as the leader of a silver-trading empire, rather than a

In the end, it was the density of the Celtic words and forms in Tartessian which convinced John that Tartessian really was the oldest attested Celtic language.

this was the site of a powerful Celtic citadel.

From Hecataeus, we learned that, in the sixth century BC, the land of Celtica was close to Massalia (Marseilles). From Herodotus, we received the information that the Celts lived around the headwaters of the Danube. Putting these together, we can suggest a continental ‘homeland’ for the Celts, stretching from east-central France, into Switzerland,

the Museu da Escrita do Sudoeste, Almodôvar (the Museum of South-western Inscriptions, Almodôvar).

Ancient Megalithic constructions like Gobekli Tepe in Turkey or Stonehenge in Wiltshire