Should we rethink the role of women in ancient societies? For more than 100 years, a high-ranking Viking warrior was assumed to be male. Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson has been studying the ...

DNA recovered from an Iron Age burial ground in southern England reveals a Celtic community ... that British women could take multiple husbands. Descriptions of Cartimandua, a warrior-queen ...

Another discovery that points to the significant role of Celtic women in society at the time includes the resolution of a decades-long mystery regarding the gender of a warrior buried 2,000 years ago ...