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

Learn more about the Durotriges, the first known matriarchal society found in Europe.

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

Iron Age Britain may have been more feminist than many people believe, a study has found. Queens during this time, such as ...

A rare Iron Age horse brooch has been made the subject of a temporary export ban in the hope it will be acquired by a UK ...

A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is believed to be the first ...

The Spice Girls need to move aside, as a new study has revealed that girl power may have started 2,400 years ago.

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, ...

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

Researchers have analyzed the genomes of over individuals from clustered cemeteries, shedding light on ancient human ...

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women ...

Wondering how widespread matrilocal societies may have been in the ancient world, the researchers then examined the genomes ...