The Celts, the highlights and the end of a cultural civilization
The Celts are the peoples and tribes who spoke the Celtic language over a millennium before the beginning of our era and the following centuries. Their ancestors spread from the core area in Central Europe both to the west and east. Around the beginning of our era, Celtic tribes inhabited the British Isles, Gaul, the Iberian Peninsula and parts of Central Europe and the Balkans. Celtic languages belong to the Indo-European language family. Due to the large area and the very long time that the Celts lived they have been able to build a very rich past. Misunderstandings It is sometimes assumed that the Celts are the founders of tumuli , large Obelisks , megaliths , dolmens , menhirs and Mounds but this is not true. These monuments date back to ancient times, some are 4000 years old. The Celtic civilization begun only 400 years before Christ. The reason why these monuments are linked to the Celts is by the conquests of the Roman empire. Their opinion was that these...
