Celts examines the different tribes, the Hallstat and La Tene periods, as well as Celtic survival in Western Europe, the Gallic Wars, military life, spiritual life, sexuality and Celtic art. Illustrated with 180 photographs, maps and artworks, Celts is an expertly written account of a people who have long captured the popular imagination.

The world of the ancient Celts is surrounded by more mysteries than almost any other. This program visits ancient Britain to find a world dominated by death and religion, druids and priests.

Anthropologist Susan A. Johnston uses historical, archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidence to look at the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe, Britain, and Ireland.

"When Graham Robb made plans to cycle the legendary Via Heraklea, he had no idea that the line he plotted - stretching from the south-western tip of the Iberian Peninsula, across the Pyrenees and towards the Alps - would change the way he saw a civilization. It was an ancient path that took him deep into the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. Gradually, a lost map revealed itself,...