The remains of a vast Iron Age village and an “absolutely remarkable” industrial-scale metal-working site have been discovered at a quarry amid speculation that its destruction was linked to 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 ...

Bog men turn up well-groomed. Prehistoric bodies found in Ireland’s peat bogs reveal that although life in the Iron Age may have been nasty, brutish and short, people still found time for good ...

Over 500 Iron Age bog bodies and skeletons dating to between 800 B.C. and A.D. 200 have been ... The Roman historian Tacitus started this idea in the first century A.D. by suggesting they were ...

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.

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 ...

Archaeologists have found the remains of downy pillows in the graves of two high-ranking Iron Age warriors in Sweden, dating to the 600s and 700s CE. Both warriors were buried in large boats ...

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, ...

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 ...

Believed to have been constructed around 530 BCE, the tombs contained a trove of relics such as gold-emblazoned tools, bronze furniture, iron jewelry, daggers, and birch bark hats.

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, ...