An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...

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

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

This could be evidence for Julius Caesar's claims that women in Iron Age Britain had multiple husbands, the researchers ...

The social fabric of Iron Age Britain, spanning roughly from 800 BC to AD 100, has long puzzled historians and archaeologists ...

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

The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements ...

DNA analysis indicates that a Celtic tribe in Iron Age Britain was matrilocal, meaning men relocated to live with women’s ...

The painting "Boadicea Haranguing the Britons" by John Opie (1761–1807), depicting the warrior queen Boudica of the Iron Age.

The Iron Age burials of powerful women revealed ... divorce and lead the Celtic armies. Julius Caesar himself noted the seemingly exotic practice of British women taking more than one husband ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were ... and Roman writers, including Julius Caesar, wrote with disdain about their relative independence and fighting prowess.