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The author, Graham Robb, is a British cyclist who undertook a cycling trip along the Via Heraklea, a long-distance route that stretches from the south-western tip of the Iberian Peninsula, across the Pyrenees, and towards the Alps. Along the way, he discovered that the route he was on was an ancient path that took him deep into the world of the Celts. One of the things he discovered was that the Celts had an empire that stretched across vast tracts of Europe, and that the map he found was oriented according to the movements of the Celtic sun god. The implications of this discovery were astonishing.
When Graham Robb made plans to cycle the legendary Via Heraklea, he had no idea that the line he plotted - stretching from the south-western tip of the Iberian Peninsula, across the Pyrenees and towards the Alps - would change the way he saw a civilisation. It was an ancient path that took him deep into the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. Gradually, a lost map revealed itself, of an empire constructed with precision and beauty across vast tracts of Europe. Oriented according to the movements of the Celtic sun god, the map had been forgotten for almost two millennia. Its implications were astonishing.
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