Images

Detail of one of the Basse-Yutz Flagons, Celtic vessels inspired by Etruscan work and used for pouring wine. Lorraine region, France. Copper alloy with coral and enamel inlay. 420-360 BCE. Height: 39.6 cm. (British Museum, London)

Celtic vessels used for serving wine. Found in Waldalgesheim, western Germany. 330-320 BCE. (Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany)

The Gundestrup Cauldron was found in Denmark in 1891 CE but was produced in the Balkans. Gilded silver, likely 1st century BCE. The designs show gods and warriors inspired by the Celtic culture. (National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen)

The Snettisham Great Torc. Part of the Snettisham burial hoard found in Norfolk, England. Celtic, gold alloy, 150-50 BCE. Diameter 56 cm. (British Museum, London)

Patent drawing of the cigarette rolling machine invented by James Albert Bonsackin in 1880 CE and patented in 1881 CE. U.S. patent 238,640.

Tobacco paper for Sharpe's Best Virginia, at Fleet Street, London, c. 1725-1775 CE. British Museum, London.

Adena effigy pipe, found in a tomb at the lowest level of the famous Adena Mound, near Chillicothe, Ohio, created during the transition between the Adena (400 BCE - 100 CE) and Hopewell (100 BCE - 400 CE) periods. Photo was taken in...

Tobacco field in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Tobacco Drying in Viñales, Cuba.

An artist's impression of how Celtic warriors may have looked in battle. Roman writers describe such warriors as wearing blue paint, having long hair dyed blond using lime and clothing with distinctive patterns.