Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn’t surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near Dorset, England. But she was quite surprised to find most of them were related along a single matrilineal line.

Scholars attempted to reconstruct technology of loom weight bead making and they studied the manufacturing technique from the Iron Age. These beads were made of clay and the mudstone particles and were usually reddish/brownish in colour.

Did Tamil Nadu rewrite Iron Age history? New findings reveal iron-smelting here dates back to 3345 BCE—2,000 years before the rest of the world.

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, a study said.

New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and political power.

Iron Age in Tamil Nadu may have begun around 3,345 BCE, a thousand years earlier than previously believed, new carbon dating from burial urns in Sivag

Globally, the Iron Age has long been attributed to the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, where iron technology is believed to have emerged around 1300 BCE. However, the Tamil Nadu findings challenge this.

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written records. New DNA research from the University of Bournemouth shows one of the ways this empowerment manifested—inheritance through the female line.

A groundbreaking study reveals that Tamil Nadu's Iron Age began as early as 3,345 BCE, predating the Hittite Empire's iron usage by a millennium. Radiometric dating of burial urn samples from Sivagalai indicate a thriving Iron Age civilization in southern India,

Two charcoal samples found along with iron objects at the site have been dated to 3,345 BCE and 3,259 BCE, making the Iron Age in Tamil Nadu the oldest in the world.

Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an incredibly rare Iron Age helmet. The discovery was made by the British Museum during a 15-year project analysing 14 hoards of gold, silver and bronze torcs excavated at Snettisham, Norfolk, between 1948 and the 1990s.

The Tamil Nadu government announced groundbreaking archaeological research that revealed iron production origins in the state. According to Chief Minister MK Stalin, the latest research challenged existing historical understanding of the Indian subcontinent.