[Billthedrill]

"There's also a bit of propaganda involved, since the Celts conquered Rome in the year 387 B.C., so they couldn't have been so primitive," Krausse explained.

Well, they were by comparison, which was sort of what the whole thing was about. They said so themselves. On the other hand, when they got tired of the smell of corpses in Rome (they stayed for three months) they gathered Roman gold and crossed the Adriatic and conquered a good bit of that area as well. Marvelous mercenaries, and would be for another five hundred years or so.

What is not yet entirely realized is the extent of international trade at the time. The fact that Spanish artifacts turned up in this dig is one example of this. If the Celts were after gold in Rome, why? Because it was pretty? No, because it was tradeworthy. What Julius Caesar would conquer in the Gallic wars three centuries later was a civilization, not a confederation of tribes, and Roman law overlaid on it would provide the basis for the Middle Ages.

Being of Celtic heritage myself I have a certain sympathy for the whole thing, except perhaps for the human sacrifice (which the Romans would still be at during the Punic Wars, and yes, two of their victims were Celtic, the others, Greek. They buried them alive. I'm sorry I took that course in Roman Civilization...) And when, in the end, they migrated to Boston and took up basketball, they started a whole new...wait, what?

[cloudmountain]

Gold is a dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal with a bright yellow color and luster that is considered attractive, which is maintained without tarnishing in air or water.
Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements, solid under standard conditions. The metal therefore occurs often in free elemental (native) form, as nuggets or grains in rocks, in veins and in alluvial deposits.
Gold resists attacks by individual acids, but it can be dissolved by the aqua regia (nitro-hydrochloric acid), so named because it dissolves gold. Gold also dissolves in alkaline solutions of cyanide, which have been used in mining. It dissolves in mercury, forming amalgam alloys; is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property that has long been used to confirm the presence of gold in items, giving rise to the term acid test.

It's pretty and doesn't tarnish AT ALL. I don't wear gold on my old hands any more but I still wear gold earrings and around my neck a gold "Crusader" cross that I got in the Holy Land. I LOVE my cross.

[Rebelbase]

“And when, in the end, they migrated to Boston and took up basketball, they started a whole new...wait, what? “

and that boston tribe was most powerful when lead by Larrycus Birdium.

[ccmay]

Marvelous mercenaries, and would be for another five hundred years or so.

Longer than that. The Gallowglass mercenaries were a mainstay of European armies well into the Renaissance period.