Modern Spain is built upon the remnants of many earlier peoples and cultures, whose traces are scattered across the country.

In 2012, two detectorists on Jersey, an island in the English Channel, made a discovery 30 years in the making. In a tightly packed clump of earth spanning 11 square feet, Reg Mead and Richard Miles ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women ...

One standout piece is a ceramic shard scratched with a lively image of a horse, added after the vessel was fired.

Two 2,300-year-old swords discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis in France "have few equivalents in Europe," and one is decorated with tiny swastikas, the French National Institute of Preventive ...

Celtic society in England was female-focused 2,000 years ago, a genetic study of Iron Age skeletons reveals. DNA analysis of dozens of ancient burials uncovered a community whose lineage could be ...

A study by Prof. Dr. Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen, published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, provides new insights into how the average human behavior in the tribal territory of Treveri ...

A metal detectorist finds a small 2,200-year-old Celtic gold coin in Saxony that rewrites pre-Roman trade routes in Europe.

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, ...

A Celtic burial site from the Second Iron Age in France contains two rare, well-preserved swords. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.