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

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

The painting "Boadicea Haranguing the Britons" by John Opie (1761–1807), depicting the warrior queen Boudica of the Iron Age. (Public domain/Wikipedia ... the Brigantes people in northern England.

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

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

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new ...

Echoing the writings of Julius Caesar, the researchers further uncovered a footprint of Iron Age migration into coastal southern England, which had gone undetected in prior genetic studies.

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

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 ...