Above: British Museum

The British Museum is revitalizing the places behind its walls and pillars. As part of its restoration, it launched three new galleries in tribute to Celtic Europe, Bronze Age Europe and Roman Britain. The period was taken from roughly 2,500 BC to the fifth century AD.

The exhibit of these galleries is permanent meant to give an authentic portrayal of history over three millennia and is expected to withstand a generation. However, an aspect of these galleries deemed controversial. A curator of the Museum named Simon James had raised the challenge of validity of the Celtic Europe. He commented “Everyone has heard of the Celts. Yet more and more archaeologists are concluding that the Ancient Celts, as usually conceived, never really existed.”

James believes that the Ancient Celts’ were not so much proved that it was a myth slowly invented by generations of scholars. Some claim that Celts are ancestors of Scots, Welsh, Bretons and Irish Men. The pursuit had come into bitter ends that some felt the need to express and explain ethnic origins of their elderly making the whole situation more complex.

Only a couple of archaeologists argue that Celts to did exist in Europe’s Iron Age history that came in mid-eighth century BD to the conquest of Roman. James also wrote a book entitled “Exploring the World of the Celts”. In its whole sense believe that the Celts did live.

After all the controversy, the dispute is not mainly on whether or not the Celts did exist but more on the gaps that existed in between histories that proves Celts did exist based on findings in historical facts. If the facts deemed not enough then this is where the people and the grandmothers get in the way.

These kinds of superficial arguments only prove to nourish the presence of intellectual life in opposition to the skeptic side of the situation.