Willard Ikola was born in Eveleth in 1932, when the Great Depression was going full steam, several mining facilities were closing and unemployment on the Iron Range was 70%. Which would tell you that ...

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

silver and bronze torcs excavated at Snettisham, Norfolk, between 1948 and the 1990s. "There are less than 10 Iron Age helmets in Britain and every single one is unique," said Iron Age curator Dr ...

An American billionaire's plans to build a country house in an English village could be delayed by a possible Iron Age hillfort near the site. Ronald Burkle, a businessman and the executive ...

Related: World's largest iron ore deposits formed over 1 billion years ago in supercontinent breakup The sandstone towers at Purnululu National Park (Purnululu means "sandstone" in the local ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

They’re also shrinking. The ocean melts ice shelves from below – a process known as “basal melting”. Increased basal melting has led to the thinning and retreat of the ice sheet in some ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and matrilocal, with women holding status and influence. A study published ...

"But archaeology, and now genetics, implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was the primary shaper of group ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. An examination of ...

Scientists from Trinity College and Bournemouth University collaborated to learn about the societies of Iron Age Celts and Britain. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Scientists from ...

The median age of voting members of the House of Representatives is now 57.5 years. That’s down from 57.9 at the start of the 118th Congress (2023-25), 58.9 in the 117th Congress (2021-23), 58.0 in ...