Another was a Roman geographer called Ptolemy who wrote a description of Britain, listing the names of the many British tribes. The Vacomagi lived in and around the Cairngorns. Other unknown ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...

meaning most people had the same maternal ancestors but not the same paternal ones. "The U5b1 haplogroup has an ancient association with Europe and Britain," Cassidy told Live Science in an email ...

When Roman writers first encountered British society ... it appears in just 3 out of every 100,000 people today and had never been seen before in ancient DNA studies. This wasn’t simply because ...

IN the icy and swampy pasts of the ancient British Isles, colossal creatures were free to roam. Much has changed in the millenniums since - with the largest wild mammal in the UK today being the ...

To learn more about these individuals, they partnered with experts in ancient ... British women could take multiple husbands. Descriptions of Cartimandua, a warrior-queen who ruled a tribe in ...

An ancient cemetery reveals a Celtic tribe that lived in England 2,000 years ... It was a really unique opportunity to study the composition of a British Iron Age community and look at family ...

Romans in retreat This was an incredible turn of events. As the Romans fell back in retreat, the British tribes appeared to be on the brink of reclaiming their native land for themselves.