Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.

The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how we left the Bronze Age behind – via a 3,000-year-old smelting workshop ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes ...

A stunning hoard of destroyed – yet still insightful – two-millennia-old artifacts were recently brought to light by archaeologists in the United Kingdom. The discovery was announced by Durham ...

The research team from Bournemouth University intends to further examine the burials to uncover new clues. DNA is being ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

James Watson’s work on the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA led to a revolution in biology and genetics ...