While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Talking on Iron Age settlements in the Jordan Valley, the professor Zeidan Kafafi noted that it has already been published ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents ...

The royal, 36, was due to join Chancellor Rachel Reeves at the event in Davos in Switzerland between January 20 and 24 - and ...

Full of emotional and deeply personal stories, the side content in these open-world games often outshines their main plots.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ... making Britain's Celtic society "more egalitarian than the Roman world," said study co-author and Bournemouth ...

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 ...