When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or ...

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

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

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

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

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

DNA analysis indicates that a Celtic tribe in Iron Age Britain was matrilocal, meaning men relocated to live with women’s ...

The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements ...

DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a "matrilocal" community in Iron ...

Ancient DNA analysis has revealed that an Iron Age community in Dorset, England, was centered around bonds of female-line ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were ... and Roman writers, including Julius Caesar, wrote with disdain about their relative independence and fighting prowess.

The Iron Age burials of powerful women revealed ... divorce and lead the Celtic armies. Julius Caesar himself noted the seemingly exotic practice of British women taking more than one husband ...