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View on the ruins of the sunken city of Simena in ancient Lycia, modern-day Turkey. Photo provided by Peter Sommer Travels and republished with permission.

A gulet, a traditional two-masted Turkish sailing boat, anchored on the Lycian coastline. Photography by Peter Sommer Travels, republished with permission.

A reconstruction of a Viking longhouse or mead hall, the great hall of rulers and scene of Norse drinking parties or sumbl. This example, at the ring castle Fyrkat near Hobro, Denmark, is 28.5 metres long.

The golden comb of the Scythians, 4th century BCE. From the mound of Solokha in Ukraine. (Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia)

The so-called Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the island of Orkney, Britain. The four standing stones (each about 300 mm thick and measuring up to 5 m tall) were once part of a massive henge monument which included...

Scota, the mythological progenitor of the Gaels, as depicted by John Fergus O'Hea, 1838-1922 CE.

This illustration from a 15th Century CE manuscript of Walter Bowers' epic Scotichronicon portrays Scota and Goídel Glas, the legendary progenitors of the Gaelic people.

Wayland's Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow and burial chamber in Oxfordshire, England which dates to the 4th Millennium BCE. The site was built in two phases, a timber oval chamber was constructed c. 3570 BCE, and the stone long barrow pictured...

The so-called "Prince of Glauberg" is a life-sized sandstone statue of a Celtic ruler from modern day Glauberg, Germany. The "Prince of Glauberg" is depicted with a mail tunic, a wooden shield and a sword, indicating his status as a warrior...

This page is from the Book of Leinster, a manuscript from 12th Century CE Ireland which contains fragments of many other works including the Lebor Gabála Érenn. The Book of Leinster is currently in the collection of Trinity College, Dublin...