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A Celtic settlement unearthed in the Czech Republic yielded over 22,000 bags of artifacts including gold coins, jewelry and pottery from the La Tène period, according to officials.

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The ancient Greeks often merged their own gods and goddesses with foreign deities in a process of religious syncretism.

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