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Rome. One of the most powerful empires the world has ever seen. As it weakened, an immense power vacuum opened up in the lands it once ruled with an iron fist. In this documentary, follow the decline of the Western Roman Empire and how the Germanic tribes of Europe rose up to inherit their power. But will anyone be able to withstand an even greater existential threat, Attila the Hun?The Battle For Europe After The Fall Of Ancient Rome | Storm Over EuropeMay 4, 2022 | Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries

A significant new find of golden artifacts, many of them with runes in the Elder Futhark, has been uncovered in Denmark.Jackson Crawford, Ph.D.: Sharing real expertise in Norse language and myth with people hungry to learn, free of both ivory tower elitism and the agendas of self-appointed gurus.Major New Runes Find in Denmark | Jackson Crawford | September 15, 2021

Medieval Irish scribes were habitually recording their emotional and physical state as they labored at the task of copying manuscripts. These scribal glosses range from pious prayers ("God bless my hands today" Laon MS 26, f18v) to curses on pens, parchment, and careless work by fellow scribes. ***** One Irish ninth century copy of a Latin grammar, the Institutiones grammaticae by Priscian (c. 500), contains alongside the usual prayers and complaints a curious marginal gloss in ogham script. Ogham script was used by the Irish possibly as early as the fourth century AD, mainly in grave monuments scattered over Ireland...

Golden Caldron Evokes Mystery of Hidden Nazi Gold Fri Aug 9,11:08 AM ET By David Crossland BERLIN (Reuters) - A mysterious golden caldron found in a Bavarian lake has rekindled a decades-old fascination with Nazi gold believed hidden in the Alps. The Bavarian government said this week it was claiming ownership of the 23-pound, solid gold vessel found by an amateur diver last year at the bottom of Lake Chiemsee, a tourist destination 40 miles southeast of Munich. Archeologists have said the caldron, adorned with a relief of mythical Celtic and Indo-Germanic figures, may have been made by the Nazis,...

Metals had never been found in Chachapoyas before the finding of these two vessels. They might not be as sacred as the Holy Grail, but two metal vessels recently discovered in Chachapoyas are turning heads in regards to understanding the region’s ancient history. “The Finding of these vessels will change the story about Chachapoyas” the Decentralized Department of Culture of the Amazonas head, Jose Santos Trauco Ramos, told El Comercio. The discovery of two silver vessels in the Soloco Purunllacta in Chachapoyas of the Amazonas department are unlike anything the archaeological team has found in its history. Investigations until this...

The two-faced Janus figure at Boa Island, Co Fermanagh, has been linked to speculation that it will be removed to a Belfast museum to protect it from damage. But the Ulster Museum has told this newspaper it has no interest in acquiring the pagan statue currently in an old graveyard... the Environment and Heritage Service confirmed yesterday that the fate of the 2ft tall figure is under consideration... The Janus figure is not connected to the Roman god but its name symbolises its two-faced nature. The statue inspired the Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney to write the poem January...

photo: Rob Knell and Rob Lee The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that new research has just determined contain the written language of the Picts, an Iron Age society that existed in Scotland from 300 to 843. The highly stylized rock engravings, found on what are known as the Pictish Stones, had once been thought to be rock art or tied to heraldry. The new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, instead concludes that the engravings represent the long lost language of the Picts, a confederation of Celtic tribes that...

Ogham inscriptions : [600 bc] primitive inscriptions of the old Q-Celt (600 bc) or the newer P-Celt (400 bc) that survive in the British Isles. We have a total of approximately 375 Ogham inscriptions. Ireland has some 316 Ogham inscriptions, Wales has 40 inscriptions, and the Isle of Man has 10 inscriptions. One inscription survived at Silchester in southern England, and a few Pictish Ogham inscriptions have been found in Scotland, as far north as the Shetland Islands. Ogham script often runs upward, in a vertical manner, for it was originally written as notches on wooden staves. Oghams :...

The National Trust’s Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire, which now comprises a working farm and a Georgian mansion house, also boasts its fair share of late Iron Age and early Roman history (circa 100 BC – 150 AD). Pertaining to this incredible legacy, archaeologists (from the National Trust), conducting their excavation on the site, came across a 5 cm long copper alloy human figurine, probably dating from 2nd century AD. And while the statuette, holding a torc (high-value Celtic neck ring) is seemingly ‘faceless’, researchers have hypothesized that it represents Cernunnos – the ‘Horned One’, the Celtic god of animals, forests,...

The Cimbrian flood (or Cymbrian flood) was a large-scale incursion of the North Sea in the region of the Jutland peninsula (Denmark) in the period 120 to 114 BC, resulting in a permanent change of coastline with much land lost. The flood was caused by one or several very strong storm(s). A high number of people living in the affected area of Jutland drowned, and the flooding apparently set off a migration of the Cimbri tribes previously settled there (Lamb 1991)... The Cimbri were a tribe from Northern Europe, who, together with the Proto-Germanic Teutones and the Ambrones threatened the...