The Celts or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities. Major Celtic groups included
The Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman statue at the Capitoline Museums of Rome, Italy.
La Tène–style ceremonial Agris Helmet, 350 BC, Angoulême city Museum in France.
Reconstruction of the Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave, Stuttgart, Germany, c. 530 BC.
Reconstruction of a late La Tène period settlement in Altburg near Bundenbach, Germany (first century BC)
The Gauls were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period. Their homeland was known as Gaul. They spoke Gaulish, a Continental Celtic language.
Celts
…Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities. Major Celtic groups included the Gauls; the Celtiberians and Gallaeci of Iberia; the Britons, Picts, and Gaels of Britain and Ireland; the Boii; and the Galatians. The interrelationships of…
Celtic sword and scabbard circa 60 BC
The Dying Gaul, Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, showing the face, hairstyle and torc of a Gaul or Galatian