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 ...
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.
A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.
Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.
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.
Exactly why the sculpture was attacked by University of Georgia students may always be a mystery. But 70 years later, ...
DNA analysis indicates that a Celtic tribe in Iron Age Britain was matrilocal, meaning men relocated to live with women’s ...
A hoard of gold and silver Roman coins, found near Worcester and said to have been enough to pay a legionnaire's salary for ...