Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said ...

How Viking and Germanic DNA Spread Through the Iron Age Migrations Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across the ...

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

The excavation, which followed the discovery of two Roman swords in 2023, is providing historians with fresh insights into ...

In fact, she says, it's not uncommon to find women in Iron Age Britain buried with valuable items, which she says "suggests that that women could attain quite high status in their societies." ...

At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife stuck into her burial. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The Iron Age began at around 1200 B.C. and ended in 550 B.C., though the university says the objects date back around 2,000 years. Dubbed the Melonsby Hoard, ...

Iron Age archaeological find: British 'bling' from 2,000 years ago included horse harnesses The Melsonby Hoard, a collection of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts found in northeast England, ...

She is believed to have been killed as part of an Iron Age ritual or sacrifice. When the 2,000 year old remains were initially discovered close to Bellaghy it was thought they could be those of a ...

Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said ...