The Roman historian Tacitus, who lived in Osterby Man's era ... The noose around his neck makes clear that, like other Iron Age bog bodies, he was killed, but following the violent act he was ...

The earliest information on Germanic peoples and their culture was recorded in Roman accounts — a notable example could be Germania, a book written around 98 A.D. by Roman historian Tacitus ... toward ...

Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was centered around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written ...

Tacitus described them as red-haired and large ... Archaeologists suspect many Iron Age peoples often practised complex funeral rituals in which bodies were naturally allowed to decompose.

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life,” he said. “Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry ...

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was ...

Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was ...