Bodies of Celts found in Switzerland may have been tsunami victims

A new study of 2,000-year-old skeletons found in western Switzerland has concluded that their cause of death may have been a tsunami. But Swiss researchers do not rule out that the Celts discovered around 60 years ago were ritually executed. Check out our selection of newsletters. Subscribe here. By investigating the cause of death of the twenty people, researchers hope to gain new insights into Celtic culture in Switzerland and northern Italy, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) said on Monday. + Archaeology helps debunk myths of Celtic Switzerland Most of the written sources about the Celts come from Julius Caesar. "They are the stories of a military adversary, so they are not necessarily objective and complete," explained Zita Laffranch from the University of Bern. She is the lead author of a study published on Monday in the journal Scientific Reports. Tsunami or sacrificial ritual? Since the discovery of a collapsed wooden bridge and 20 skeletons on the Zihl Canal in ...