The Lost Tribes of Israel, who were the old Northern Kingdom (aka the House of Israel), were the Galatians (and Corinthians, and Phillipians, and Ephesians, etc....), were Celts.According to Greek lore, Ephesus was founded by the Amazons. Probably no connection between Amazons and Celts, what would you say?
I would say there is probably no connection between Amazons and Celts. Further, if that is what the Greeks say then those Greeks are full of prunes.
A Greek Amphora shows a Greek warrior doing battle with a warrior clad in breeches. I spoke to an historian (a real art historian) and remarked that it must have been a Scythian. She corrected me and remarked that it was and Amazon depicted, a re-enactment of a familiar story. But the costume was intriquing. Both Celts and Scythians wore breeches, both were thought to be descendents of caucasian tribes, and both spoke Indo-european tongues.
Elsewhere the claim was made about the bad press the Celts supposedly received from the Greeks and Romans. There's archeological evidence supporting the head-hunting and human sacrifice claims. My take, as a Celt: we were barbarians of the worst imaginable sort, tamed by Greek thought, Roman law, and Hebraic spirituallity.