A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn’t surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written ...

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

Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an ...

Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...

Reconstruction of Iron Age helmet (top) from copper alloy fragments (above) found in the hoard. SNETTISHAM, ENGLAND—Metal ...

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

Real authority behind most decision-making rested with female leaders such as Boudica, say academics ...