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

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

Ancient DNA analysis has revealed that an Iron Age community in Dorset, England, was centered around bonds of female-line ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and ...

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, ...

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 ...

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women ...

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.

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 ...