New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and political power.

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

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and ...

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient ...

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

The social fabric of Iron Age Britain, spanning roughly from 800 BC to AD 100, has long puzzled historians and archaeologists ...

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

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...

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

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

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

The painting "Boadicea Haranguing the Britons" by John Opie (1761–1807), depicting the warrior queen Boudica of the Iron Age.