"This has the sense of a body thrown into a pit, with hands potentially tied," archaeologist Miles Russell said.

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 ...

The Durotriges were a Celtic tribe that lived in present-day southern England prior to Roman conquest during the 1st century ...

The painting "Boadicea Haranguing the Britons" by John Opie (1761–1807), depicting the warrior queen Boudica of the Iron Age. (Public domain/Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — ...

I turned the face at last to the light and it felt like the person was looking at me,” said TV presenter Sandi Toksvig while ...

However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens ...

Scientists have found evidence of multiple infectious diseases that may have played key roles in the army’s catastrophic ...

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...

Ancient DNA reveals Napoleon’s army was decimated by hidden fevers, not typhus, during the disastrous 1812 Russian invasion.

A skull of a soldier from Napoleon's army. Courtesy of Aix-Marseille Université, France. Scientists have extracted DNA from a soldier who served in the army led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. T ...