La Tène culture
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The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture. It developed and flourished during the late Iron Age, succeeding the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture without any definite cultural break, under co
Agris Helmet, France, c. 350 BC
1910 illustration of a Gallic chief
Model of the Roman siege of Avaricum, France, during the Gallic War (52 BC)
Bronze chariot fitting from Roissy, France, 3rd century BC
Gauls
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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.
La Tène culture
…to Roman culture, giving rise to the hybrid Gallo-Roman culture of Roman Gaul. The bearers of the La Tène culture were the people known as Celts or Gauls to ancient ethnographers. Ancient Celtic culture had no written literature of its own, but rare examples of epigraphy in the Greek or Latin alphabets…
The Dying Gaul, Capitoline Museums, Rome
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