such graves and cremation burials are very rare in other parts of Britain before the Roman period. Archaeologists suspect many Iron Age peoples often practised complex funeral rituals in which ...

IRON AGE BOY:North, south, east, west. IRON AGE GIRL:Oh, oh! IRON AGE FATHER:Give them a warning shot. NARRATOR:Life in Britain is changing once again, helped along by the introduction of this new ...

During the Iron Age or Roman Period, the DNA of people in the south-east diverged somewhat from that of populations in the rest of the Britain. Prof Reich, from Harvard Medical School in Boston ...

The discovery of a unique Iron Age shield and the excavation of a "lavish" Roman villa are to feature on BBC Two's Digging for Britain. Archaeologists from the University of Leicester led the digs ...

Although ritual sacrifice in Iron Age Britain is documented by classical authors, there is scant evidence that it actually occurred. “In the other burials we have found, the deceased people ...

A small pebble with ornate markings is Britain’s earliest piece of Mesolithic art—but what do the markings denote, and was it worn for cosmetic purposes or spiritual ones? (03:19) Explore ...

Collectors and museums began widely acquiring Iranian weaponry from the Iron Age after they were first ... seized at UK customs and held at the British Museum were revealed, using a scanning ...

Journal of Archaeological Science British border agents recently seized a collection of smuggled Iranian swords headed for the black market. Now, researchers have discovered that the Iron Age ...

A cache of 3,000-year-old Iranian swords seized at Heathrow Airport have been revealed to be fakes created using ancient ...