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The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
The Discovery of Middle Earth Mapping the Lost World of the Celts Author:Graham Robb How the scientific and technological genius of the Druids created the earliest known accurate map of the world.At the end of the Iron Age, the 600-year-old civilization of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Scotland. It had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. But in 58 BC, Julius Caesar m... more »arched over the Alps, bringing Roman civilization in the form of slavery and genocide. Some Druids (the Celtic intelligentsia) fled to Britain to organize a desperate and ultimately futile resistance there.
While planning a bicycling trip along the Heraklean Way, the ancient route from Portugal to the Alps, Graham Robb made a discovery opening a door to that lost world. Through celestial mathematics, Druids had organized the geography of Europe and Britain into a grid of ?solstice lines??including meridians and latitudes?that determined the placement of towns, temples, roads, and battles, and the pathways of tribal migrations. This amazing book is the story of what Robb found and what it means. 50 illustrations« less