Very little is truly known of the ancient Celts who left no written records. The names of many of the gods worshipped by them are known through Latin or Gallo-Latin inscriptions made in late pre ...

Recent evidence that Druids possibly committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice—perhaps on a ... about these high-ranking priests of the Celts, who had spread throughout much of Europe ...

The powerful Celtic social class posed a threat to the ... Pliny the Elder wrote of the Druids’ appreciation for both mistletoe and human sacrifice. “To murder a man was to do the act of ...

The "Celts appointed those whom they call druids ... The druids may have been involved in human sacrifice. The first-century Greek historian Diodorus Siculus wrote that although the druids ...

But whether this event was the result of a catastrophic flood or an elaborate ritual sacrifice ... a Celtic cremation tomb in Germany The team also used carbon-14 analysis to date 11 of the human ...