Halloween famously comes from the Celtic festival of Samhain, but does Samhain itself come from an Ancient Greek festival?

Far from being drunken Iron Age louts, more than 2000 years ago the ancient Celts already had one of the most geospatially-advanced civilizations yet known. The Celts not only carried on the classical ...

The names of the ancient Celtic gods are much less known than those of their Greek and Norse counterparts. Thanks to modern retellings of ancient myths in books and movies, names such as Hades, the ...

The ancient Celts were fierce warriors who lived in mainland Europe. But during the Renaissance, an idea took hold that they lived in the British Isles. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

This Halloween, as children dress as witches for trick-or-treating, a real witch in Wausau is celebrating the ancient Celtic festival that started it all.