HistoryEnglish • 11 days ago

In French Necropolis 21 Roman "curse tablets" discovered including one written in the extinct Celtic language of Gaulish

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In French Necropolis 21 Roman "curse tablets" discovered including one written in the extinct Celtic language of Gaulish

HistoryEnglish • 11 days ago

In French Necropolis 21 Roman “curse tablets” discovered including one written in the extinct Celtic language of Gaulish

During the excavation of an eighteenth-century hospital in north-western France by researchers from the Orléans Archaeological Service, a 2,000-year-old necropolis...

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Not really surprising since Bretagne was basically Celtic for centuries. The local dialect is very similar to Welsh

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