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 ...

Genetic analysis explored another wave of migration toward the end of the Iron Age in Scandinavia, which ended about 800 A.D.

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, ...

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 ...

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.

A "once-in-a-lifetime" hoard of Iron Age artefacts has been uncovered by archaeologists. Dubbed the Melsonby hoard, more than 800 items were discovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads in 2021 in ...

Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — unlike previous eras of prehistory.

The style of the woolen cloak in which she was wrapped dates this woman to the late 16th century, distinguishing her from the more common Iron Age bog bodies. She was in her late 20s or early 30s ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an Iron Age cemetery around an earlier prehistoric burial mound in Germany. The remains were discovered close to the River Weser in the Minden-Lübbecke district of ...

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 ...

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 ...