Since Celtic people lived for many centuries in the area of Salzburg and started the Hallein (Salt) culture, you will get the best information on ancient Celtic by visiting their museum. This is also the cradle for the remaining Celts in the British Isles. Bohemia is just to the North and has always been on the trade routes of salt from the South and Amber from the North. Here is an excerpt... otherwise go to this website: http://www.salzburgcb.com/en/salzburg/excursions/hallein_englisch.php <http://www.salzburgcb.com/en/salzburg/excursions/hallein_englisch.php>It is a wonderful place to visit and experience ancient history there. I can highly recommend this tour to visitors going to Europe, because you come face to face with the ancient people of the homeland. Aida Hallein is an ancient Celtic salt-mining town located some 20 kilometers to the south of Salzburg. Hallein's historic city center is classified as historical and - just like 400 years ago - is lined with charming burgher houses painted in a variety of colors. The town is known for its exhibition *Salt Mines<http://www.salzburgerland.com/eng/tid_celtic_museum_hallein_46745/direktlink.html> * in the Bad Dürnberg district. The bus will take you directly to the Salt Mines where salt was already extracted as early as 600 years before Christ. The salt mines became particulary significant under Salzburg's archbishops during the 16th century, at which time they produced the most salt in the Eastern Alps. Hallein was the archbishopric's "treasure vault". Salzburg's affluence and beauty is still attributed to the wealth derived from trading with the "white gold" - as salt was known back in those days. Before starting off on the tour of the *"Salt World"<http://www.salzburgerland.com/eng/tid_celtic_museum_hallein_46745/direktlink.html> * it is customary to pass bread, salt and schnapps as a token of hospitality at the entrance to the tunnel. On your exciting journey through the winding tunnel system running between Salzburg and Bavaria you will ride on a miners' car, slide down two long mining chutes, take a ride on a raft over a subterranean lake and acquire a wealth of information about salt mining. After the tour you will visit the* "Celtic Village",<http://www.salzburgerland.com/eng/tid_celtic_museum_hallein_46745/direktlink.html> * reconstructed from an ancient Celtic settlement, and learn about the people, their work and way of living. After lunch at a restaurant in Hallein offering regional fare and a short walk through the town, you will visit the refurbished *Celtic Museum<http://www.salzburgerland.com/eng/tid_celtic_museum_hallein_46745/direktlink.html> *, offering an exciting portrayal of the history of the Celts. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Dr. Jack Schaffer < [email protected]> wrote: > The Celts were not a germanic people. They are the ancestors of the Gaelic > speaking peoples in Ireland and Scotland, or at least some of them (there > were also Picts and other groups). The German speaking peoples originally > were settled near the Baltic Sea and migrated southward into the areas of > Bavaria and what is now Austria (as well as northward into Scandinavia) > sometime in the first centuries of the common era, if memory serves me > correctly. Most of the German speaking peoples who lived in Bohemia were > either invited in by the Slavic kings of the 10th to about the 12th > centuries (like good King Wenceslas) or were brought in by the Hapsburgs > following the 30-years War, when much of the Sudetenland was decimated and > had few people living there. By that time, the Celts had migrated westward > into France, Spain, and the British Isles. > > Jack Schaffer > > > > > ________________________________ > From: PJ Vazquez <[email protected]> > To: Roots Bohemian <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, February 14, 2010 7:52:37 PM > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] maps > > > Bob, > > > > I wasn't trying to say the maps were incorrect. I was wondering what was > meant by Celts as our most ancient ancestors? In what way were they > our most ancient ancestors? And would that be ancestors of ethnic > Bohemians only or also of Ethnic Germans born in Bohemia? > > > > I did a maternal line DNA test which gave me the result of Haplogroup T2 > and ancestors coming from the middle east to central Europe. I'm still not > clear on what my DNA results mean. > > > > Pam > > > > > > > > > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:55:27 -0800 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] maps > > > > PJ - > > > > The map is correct and so are you. Different maps show different things - > > and time periods. > > > > If you want an interesting look at the out-of-Africa maps, check this > out: > > https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/atlas.html > > > > Bob U. > > > > -- > > "Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." > > – Edna Ferber > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >