Remarkable evidence that women in British Iron Age society were empowered politically and socially has been unveiled in an international genetic study led by researchers at Trinity College Dublin.

"As is the case for so many Iron Age bog bodies, the young woman suffered ... followed by decapitation," said Murphy, ...

Love Irish history? Share your favorite stories ... Shape and cook as per Griddle Cakes above. My day of Iron Age eating concluded with a Wild Boar Stew. Not a whole roast hog, as you might ...

A huge Iron Age hoard discovered in a Yorkshire field by a metal detectorist could lead to a revaluation of the wealth and status of the elite living in northern Britain 2,000 years ago ...

Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women A study that has revealed an Iron Age society centred on women was led by geneticists from Trinity College Dublin. Alongside ...

The Irish Government has included Rathcroghan as ... and peer into the narrow passage of Oweynagat. In Ireland’s Iron Age, such behavior would have been enormously risky during Samhain, when ...

Archaeologists have unveiled two Iron Age "bog bodies" which were found in the Republic of ... From his studies on these bog bodies and others, Ned Kelly, keeper of Irish antiquities at the National ...

The items were likely thrown into the lake as part of a religious practice at the end of the Iron Age, around the time ... on the coast of the Irish Sea.

Ancient human remains discovered in an Irish bog in October 2023 don't belong ... "As is the case for so many Iron Age bog bodies, the young woman suffered a highly violent death which involved ...

That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back about 2,000 years. Found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire ...

From the Ulster Archaeological Society, Dr Ruth Carden discusses the Irish Cave Bones Project and ... archaeologists to speculate on how Iron Age cooking was carried out. We know that they had ...

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 ...