6 Aug 2026, 14:46 UTC558 views31 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Isle of Skye from outer space. 🏴
The isle Skye is first recorded in Ptolemy’s Map of the world with the name Scetis. The later Ravenna Cosmography renders the name Scitis, while the various Irish chronicles call it Scíth. The word is undoubtedly Celtic, meaning “wing”, which matches the modern interpretation of the name An t-Eilean Sgitheanach (“The Winged Isle”). The name Skye is thus both Celtic and very anc…
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4 Aug 2026, 16:08 UTC570 views18 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Knocknarea (Irish: Cnoc na Riabh; “Hill of the Stripes”) with Miosgán Meadhbha (“Medb’s Heap”) at the summit; county Sligo, Ireland. 🇮🇪
The huge cairn on Knocknarea was supposedly the burial place of the mythical Queen Medb. According to the middle Irish poem Caithréim Cellaig, the hill was also the initial burial place of the renown king of Connacht Eógan Bél, grandson to the famous High King Ailill Molt. The poem …
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3 Aug 2026, 15:30 UTC662 views17 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Carrowmore (Irish: An Cheathrú Mhór; “The Great Quarter”) Megalithic Cemetery, in county Sligo, Ireland. 🇮🇪
There were formerly 55 megalithic tombs at Carrowmore, of which now only 30 survive. These formed part of a wide ritual landscape centered at the nearby hill of Knocknarea with its large cairn / passage tomb, Miosgán Meadhbha, (“[Queen] Meadhbh’s Heap”) at the top. Radiocarbon dates from materials found within…
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1 Aug 2026, 17:41 UTC803 views18 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Battle of Castulo; 211 B.C: Suessetani vs. Romans. 🇪🇸⚔️🏳️
The first attempt by the Roman Republic to conquer Carthage’s Iberian territories during the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.) ended in disaster, with the Roman army annihilated at the double Battle of Upper Baetis in 211 B.C. This catastrophe was largely brought about by the Celts who inhabited the peninsula.
Roman generals Publius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus…
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28 Jul 2026, 15:45 UTC951 views28 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
“Galatian” guard (in red) of king Herod I the Great of Judea (reigned 37-2 B.C.), escorting two envoys from Hatra (located in modern Iraq); art by Raffaele Ruggeri.
Jewish historian Flavius Josephus recorded in his Antiquities of the Jews that king Herod I the Great had received a detachment of 400 “Galatian” soldiers from Octavian (the future Roman emperor Augustus Caesar) as a gift, at some point after 30 B.C. The…
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27 Jul 2026, 14:52 UTC952 views20 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
La Tène style bronze brooch; 2nd century B.C. From a private collection in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. 🇩🇪
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27 Jul 2026, 13:57 UTC875 views25 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Clach Ard Pictish stone, near Tote on the Isle of Skye in Scotland; 7th century AD. 🏴
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25 Jul 2026, 15:01 UTC≈1,770 views80 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Video
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25 Jul 2026, 14:15 UTC888 views24 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Happy St. James de Moor-slayer (Santiago Matamoros) day to all Spanish subscribers. ✝️ 🇪🇸
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23 Jul 2026, 17:23 UTC≈1,080 views24 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Scotland: View over Scone and Perthshire. 🏴
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23 Jul 2026, 15:40 UTC≈1,180 views13 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Suessetania: forgotten Gallic colony in Iberia. 🇪🇸 Photos: (1) Berdún, in Huesca province, Aragón. (2) River Gállego, Aragón.
In pre-Roman times, the northeast part of Aragón —together with some adjacent parts of Navarre— was inhabited by an Iberian people known as the Suessetani. Strangely, many place-names in the same area reflect Gaulish etymologies, rather than belonging to the original Iberian or Vasco-Aquitani…
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21 Jul 2026, 17:37 UTC≈1,120 views21 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Gallic invasion of Macedon; 279 B.C. 🇷🇸🇲🇰🇬🇷 Pictured: Macedonian gold stater minted during the reign of king Ptolemy Ceraunus of Macedon, bearing the mame of his predecessor, Lysimachus.
In the year 279 B.C. a large Gallic army showed up at the border of the Kingdom of Macedonia under the leadership of a chieftain named Bolgius. Macedonia was then ruled by king Ptolemy Ceraunus (Greek: Keraunos; “thunderbolt”), a so…
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