Before the coming of the Roman empire, Celtic languages were spoken across Europe. Present day placenames indicate the extent ...

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From 600 BC to 43 AD, early languages of Europe influenced the families of Celtic languages spoken across the continent. Two main groups of languages developed in the British Isles: Goidelic in ...

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...

Women were at the centre of social networks in Iron Age British Celtic communities, research in this week’s Nature suggests.

Bard Hedd Wyn was killed in action in France in 1917. Media accounts on endangered languages abound, but they don’t always explore how to materially help native speakers. Peer-reviewed research ...

A scientific discovery has unveiled one of history’s greatest enigmas: the origin of Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian languages, fundamental pillars of Mediterranean civilizations. An international ...

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.