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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...

Tumuli, large Obelisks, megaliths, dolmens , menhirs and Burial mounds were antiquity burial sites monuments. So these people commemorated their gods and their dead. This all happened in 4000 BC, and this throughout the European continent. This is around the time where other civilizations like the Egyptians and the Greeks flourished. People come in large numbers at the monuments in France and Germany, but there are plenty of monuments from antiquity to be found in England, just think of Stonehenge . Bretagne (France) Countless megaliths are found in Bretagne , a French province. Carnac is such a place where many megaliths been preserved. A lone Dolmen can be visited in Dol-de-Bretagne . Furthermore, in Bretagne you also find Dolmens back in Camaret-sur-Mer and Locmariaquer . If you visit Le Cairn du Barnenez than you saw the best preserved burial mound . In the past there have been many more such stones present but in Roman times and the Middle Ages they had no eye for these...