Note: this topic is from July 1, 2003. Thanks Pharmboy.Seems like a good time for a re-ping. :')
In November 1897, in a field near the village of Coligny in eastern France, a local inhabitant unearthed two strange objects... The other was an ancient bronze tablet, 5 feet wide and 3.5 feet high. It bore numerals in Roman but the words were in Gaulish, the extinct version of Celtic spoken by the inhabitants of France before the Roman conquest in the first century B.C. The tablet, now known as the Coligny calendar, turned out to record the Celtic system of measuring time, as well as being one of the most important sources of Gaulish words. Two researchers, Dr. Peter Forster of the University of Cambridge in England and Dr. Alfred Toth of the University of Zurich, have now used the calendar and other Celtic inscriptions to reconstruct the history of Celtic and its position in the Indo-European family of languages.
Thanks...I think of all the threads I’ve posted, I have learned the most (from Freepers) on this thread.
Very cool!