Across Australia, history enthusiasts are having serious fun with medieval times through dedicated clubs, and finding ...

There are less than 10 Iron Age helmets in Britain and every single one is unique,' said Julia Farley, Iron Age curator at the British Museum.

Echoing the writings of Julius Caesar, the researchers further uncovered a footprint of Iron Age migration into coastal southern England, which had gone undetected in prior genetic studies. This will ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society ... The DNA comes from human remains taken from a late iron age cemetery (circa 100BC—AD100) of the Durtriges ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature reveals an extraordinarily different social structure in Iron Age Britain, showing that Celtic communities were, in fact, matrilocal. Here, married women ...

This further suggests Iron Age Celtic women were, perhaps, at the very heart of social networks in their communities, staying in the same circles throughout life, maintaining social networks and ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

This photo provided by Bournemouth University in January 2025 shows burials being investigated at an Iron Age Celtic cemetery as part of the Durotriges tribe project dig in Dorset, southwest England. ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and matrilocal, with women holding status and influence. A study published ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that ...