Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was ...

Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.

When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or ...

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, ...

Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across ...

Iron Age Celts lived here before and after Christ ... when they were called on by the head of the tribe. The famous Roman Tacitus said the Celtic women were as big and as scary as the men.

Tacitus described them as red-haired and large ... Archaeologists suspect many Iron Age peoples often practised complex funeral rituals in which bodies were naturally allowed to decompose.

The Roman historian Tacitus, who lived in Osterby Man's era ... The noose around his neck makes clear that, like other Iron Age bog bodies, he was killed, but following the violent act he was ...