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.

When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or at least, that’s how Julius Caesar and other witnesses described the ...

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.

The Spice Girls need to move aside, as a new study has revealed that girl power may have started 2,400 years ago. Researchers from Trinity College Dublin say that Britain's Iron Age society ...

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.

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 ...

Historical accounts from Greek and Roman writers, including Julius Caesar, described powerful female political leaders in Iron Age England, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, noting their ...

“Given the paucity of Iron Age bodies, it’s really quite hard to say whether this covers the whole country,” Allason-Jones said. Julius Caesar wrote that British women could take multiple ...

Bournemouth University students excavating an Iron Age Burial in Winterborne Kingston Dorset. Picture: Bournemouth University Echoing the writings of Julius Caesar, the researchers further ...

PARIS - Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred ... in northern England. Julius Caesar, in his account ...