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 Wednesday. When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written records. New DNA research from the University of Bournemouth shows one of the ways this empowerment manifested—inheritance through the female line.

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was ...

Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around ... When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about ...

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women participating in public affairs, exercising political influence — and having more than one husband.

PARIS - 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 on Wednesday. When historians such as Tacitus and ...

Formally declared treasure, the Worcestershire Conquest Hoard, as it is known, consists of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman coins ... "There's a Roman historian called Tacitus who talks about disarming ...

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands relocating to live within their wives' communities. This marks the first documented instance of such a system in European prehistory.

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

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable. People today shouldn’t.

Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn't surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near Dorset, England. But she was quite surprised to find most of them were ...