Historians may no longer talk of a single Celtic culture, but in The Celts: A Modern History Ian Stewart crafts a unified ...

Learn more about the influence the Vikings had on the English language.

Video allegedly taken at a Switzerland protest against U.S. President Donald Trump circulated online in March 2025, with ...

"Norway and the Nordic countries have a pagan heritage to be somewhat proud of. A heritage that few have been aware of," says ...

While Celtic identity has been used by French revolutionaries ... In pre-revolutionary France, the French nobility claimed descent from the Germanic Franks, who had invaded and subdued the ...

The Swiss city of Basel is currently in the grip of its impressive annual three-day festival known as Fasnacht. Enjoy the ...

We speak it, we read it, we write it … and we know doodle-squat about it. And more’s the pity when it comes to English, because I find its length and breadth fascinating. For one thing, if English ...

However, the city of Basel's website notes that the festivities "trace back to ancient Celtic and Germanic origins and practices relating to ancestor worship, fertility rites and the expulsion of ...

Ancient civilizations that we usually think of as antagonists—the Romans and the Celts, the Persians and the Macedonians ...