Iron Maiden have written songs about dinosaurs, the Second World War and many, many things in between. So, here’s the history of Planet Earth as told through the metal legends’ lyrics.

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

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

DNA evidence from 2,000 years ago shows that women in Celtic society typically remained in their ancestral communities after ...

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

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

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

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic ... "But archaeology, and now genetics, implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ...

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