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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Two of Germany’s most famous Iron Age burial mounds suggest nobility was passed down by mothers. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fascinating insights into a prehistoric building that was devastated by a "violent" fire 2,200 years ago. The building is located at the archaeological site of Tossal ...

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 ...