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Before the coming of the Roman empire, Celtic languages were spoken across Europe. Present day placenames indicate the extent of their influence: the town of Bala in Turkey and the city of London in ...

Archaeologists Discover Roman-Era Cemetery of Men Buried With 'Curse Tablets', Was Inscribed in an Extinct Language Archaeologists have discovered an incredible Roman-era cemetery, complete with ...

Gaulish for “Mars the Royal,” the Roman god of war. Several people were also named in the inscription as targets of the curse. X-ray tomography is now being used to examine and virtually ...

Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish.

The inscription names several people — in both Latin and Gaulish — to be targeted by the curse for their unjust actions. A curse tablet that has been unrolled, with an overlaid transcription ...

The text included inscriptions in both Latin cursive and Gaulish, a language spoken by Celtic people but now extinct. A connection to the God of War Pierre-Yves Lambert, a linguistics specialist with ...

After unrolling the lead sheet, researchers discovered it had been written in Gaulish, an extinct Celtic language ... go inside the curse of King Tut’s tomb and how it supposedly killed at least nine ...