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Celtic culture initially spread from the Halstatt civilization moslty because of trade and the prestige of its material culture.
Romans: “Damn, these Celts are really ingenious and astounding craftsman! Shame about all the ‘bar bar bar’ stuff with wearing pants and growing mustaches that means we have to conquer them, for the good of civilization.”
Romaboos for the next 1500 years: “BAR BAR BAR CELTS STUPID”
Unfairly slandered, and it doesn’t even have the decency to be the actual slander of their enemies 😭
Didn’t they decide to use piss as mouthwash? I forget who did that, but ew guys gross.
That’s the Egyptians and Romans… Because it was a ready source of ammonia
Bonus fun: it was common practice until the 1700s
That would be the Romans themselves, actually!
Worst part? It actually works to whiten teeth. Ammonia in the urine.
… not worth it if you ask me, but what do I know?
Certainly not how piss tastes.
Not even close.
Soap: Babylonians
Hair Dye: Assyrians
Toothpaste: Egyptians
Gel: the word is Scottish
Mattresses: possibly Arabic given the name
The worse part is it doesn’t list chainmail, which they very much did invent
Different groups of people can invent stuff, it doesn’t say were the first ever.
And Scottish is a Celtic language, but more to the point we literally have a bog body from Clonycavan that still has hair gel in their hair, so it long predates the “scientific” gelatine based gels.
The Romans regarded soap as an invention of the Gauls, and it’s likely that transmission of soap was from Gaul to Rome, rather than from Egypt or Mesopotamia.
Except for those pesky Babylonians.
I said Romans regarded soap as an invention of the Gauls, and explicitly noted that the transmission was likely from Gaul to Italy, rather than from a culture which had invented soap before the Gauls, such as Egypt or Mesopotamia.
I heard you the first time.
The barbarians didn’t invent soap.
Did you even read the wiki article you linked to? The Babylonians and others invented “proto-soaps” and “soap-like materials” but what we regard as “true soap” wasn’t invented until much later, and if the Romans were correct that it came from Gaul, then that would make it Celtic in origin. Try actually reading the actual sources you linked to.
I love to spread paste on my touth.
Paste them touth
she pastin on my touth til I barbar
