Celtic language was being spoken in Tartessos during the late Bronze Age and into the early Iron Age. That name of the king of Tartessos, Arganthonios, is itself Celtic. It’s very similar to the title ‘Argantodannos’, found on silver coins from Gaul, from much later.

Hannibal and his Carthaginian army – the Second Punic War.

Irish mythology, the Morrigan appears as a whole flock of carrion crows on a field after battle. Shape-shifting also takes place in the Welsh tales; in the Mabinogion, the troublemaking brothers Gwydion and Gilfaethwy are punished by being transformed into a series of different animals. For a year at a time, they exist as a pair of deer, as wild bo

At least the Romans had a reason to hold that line – and that reason was the Celts.

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

Po Valley,

It was Agricola who had headed north to subdue the Celtic Caledonian tribes. Tacitus wrote De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae – ‘About the life and character of Julius Agricola’ – to heap praise upon his wife’s father. Part of the sucking up required ensuring the great general was challenged by worthy foes, and Calgacus – literally, ‘the swordsman’

They are Iron Age people – their story spans most of the first millennium BC, from the end of the Bronze Age to the arrival of Romans in Celtic lands. They left virtually no written records, but they made stunning art, knew the secrets of metallurgy and had their own myths and religion.

Tartessian and the Earliest Celts