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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have also found evidence of the Durotriges tribe, who occupied the central ... The findings provide a much deeper understanding of ancient British societies and their connections ...

An analysis of ancient DNA from ... a time when Celtic tribes, speaking closely related languages and sharing similar art and cultural practices, dominated the British Isles.

For over a century, experts - linguists, scientists and archaeologists - have tried to crack the Indus script. Theories have ...

The social fabric of Iron Age Britain, spanning roughly from 800 BC to AD 100, has long puzzled historians and archaeologists. Recent breakthroughs in genetic analysis are now shedding light on the ...

Still, much remains unknown about this Celtic tribe, as well as the many groups of prehistoric humans scattered across space and time., but Cassidy is convinced that ancient DNA will help unravel ...

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 ...