800 years before the birth of Jesus, nomadic warlike people took root and rose in central Europe. Their world was awash with benign spirits and demonic forces. While they built temples, nature was their cathedral. Like many other civilizations in the ancient world, they worshipped a sun god and mother goddess, and the afterlife was an extension of the virgin vitality of their life on earth. The druids were the priests and magistrates who held their world together and performed secret rituals and sacrifices. To the classical civilizations of their day, they were barbarians, at their gates to haunt their dreams. And yet, they would create art in metal that would rival that of Rome and Greece. Masters of the horse and of iron, they were the Celts.

From a time before time was first measured, humankind has pondered the question of God. As the image of that god formed in their mind, they fashioned it in wood, paint and stone and housed it in holy places. The ancient world was populated with gods beyond counting. Today, just one God dominates the world of believers. Where have the old gods gone? Our quest is to peel away the layers of time to examine the civilizations that brought the gods to power and honoured them with art and architecture and to discover the ultimate fate of the Lost Gods.

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