Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was centered around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said ...

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life,” he said. “Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry ...

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift. DNA clues indicate that around 2,000 years ago, married women in a Celtic society, known as ...

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was ...