Irish Iron Age And Medieval Helmets
Some of the oldest descriptions of military helmets in Irish literature can be found in the earliest versions of theContinue Reading
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Must Farm Bronze Age Settlement
An omnivorous tapeworm up to ten metres long lurking in the coils of a human intestine, consuming all that theContinue Reading
John T Koch: Thinking About Indo-European And Celtic Myths
The video below is from a lecture by the American historian John T Koch, summarising the evidence for linking Europe’sContinue Reading
Medieval Irish Shields And European Shield Types
The oldest Irish term for a set of weapons is gaisce, a compound of two separate words: ga “spear” andContinue Reading
The Story Of The Ark Before Noah, From Sumer To Babylonia To Israel
The Judeo-Christian myth of a small group of select men and women surviving a primordial deluge to repopulate the worldContinue Reading
Celtic Chess? Ficheall and Gwyddbwyll In Medieval Ireland And Wales
The modern Irish word for the game of chess is ficheall. However this term, literally “wood wisdom” or “wood sense”,Continue Reading
The Summer Harvest Hides County Meath’s Newest Neolithic Discovery Once Again
The YouTube channel Mythical Ireland has published a new video of the wheat field near Brú na Bóinne or Newgrange*Continue Reading
Drones, A Dry Summer And A Wealth Of Archaeological Discoveries In Ireland
One unexpected result of the exceptionally dry summer in Ireland has been a plethora of archaeological discoveries around the country.Continue Reading
The Iron Age Battle Site At Alken Enge In The Illerup River Valley, Denmark
Right up to the 19th century and perhaps somewhat later, it was common practice for historians and scholars to acceptContinue Reading
Ireland And The Roman Empire, Irish Tower Houses
I thought some readers might be interested in these two links from the Mediaevalist.Net. The first one leads to aContinue Reading
Women Warriors In Celtic And Medieval Ireland
With the controversy over the supposed identification of the grave of a “female Viking warrior”, known to archaeologists as BjContinue Reading
Was Leather Armour A Real Thing? Not For The Celts, Romans And Vikings
I’m currently watching the Norsemen on Netflix, a pitch-black historical comedy set in a Scandinavian coastal village during the late 8thContinue Reading
Three Lectures On The Scandinavian Worldview In The Viking Age
Following on from a recent post on the supposed existence of warrior women among the Vikings, here are three lecturesContinue Reading
Did Celtic And Viking Female Warriors Exist?
The modern belief that professional female warriors were a common sight in the ancient world is a myth which owesContinue Reading
Networking The Cogadh Gaeil Ré Gaill, The War Of The Irish With The Foreigners
The Medieval text known as the Cogadh Gaeil ré Gaill or “War of the Irish with the Foreigners” describes theContinue Reading
The Sealand Dynasty Of Babylonia And Mesopotamia
In the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE the region of Mesopotamia, the ancient Middle East, was split between a numberContinue Reading
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When It Comes To The Irish Otherworld, I’m With Danny Healy-Rae
When you find yourself in agreement with Danny Healy-Rae, the maverick independent TD from Kerry, you know that your dayContinue Reading
The Caterthuns, Two Iron Age Hillforts In Scotland
Some of you may have already seen this wonderful drone footage by Kieran Baxter featuring the Caterthuns, a pair ofContinue Reading
Barry Cunliffe Lectures On The Celtic From The West Theory
An interesting talk by the veteran British historian and archaeologist Barry Cunliffe discussing the controversial “Celtic from the West” theory.Continue Reading
The Bronze Age Battlefield Site Of Tollense, Northern Germany
In an article last year I highlighting some new research into the suspected Bronze Age battlefield site of Tollense, a riverContinue Reading
Holy Wells And A Proposed Hill Of Tara National Monument And Park
The monumental landscape around Teamhair na Rí or the Hill of Tara in County Meath features several springs closely associatedContinue Reading
3D Modelling The Archaeology Of Ireland
The Discovery Programme, a national archaeological research body supported by the Heritage Council, has been publishing some fantastic 3D models forContinue Reading
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