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

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.

Chennai: In what is considered a landmark revelation that reshapes the understanding of early metallurgy in India, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday announced that the use of iron in the State dates back to 3345 BCE.

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.

The use of iron in Tamil Nadu can be dated back to the first quarter of the 4th millennium BCE, according to fresh findings published by the State’s Archaeology Department, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said during an event at the Anna Centenary Library in Chennai on Thursday (January 23,

Till now, it is believed that the Iron Age began in the Middle East and South-eastern Europe around 1,200 BCE – that is roughly 3,200 years ago

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands relocating to live within their wives' communities. This marks the first documented instance of such a system in European prehistory.

CHENNAI: Declaring that the Iron Age began in the Tamil lands, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday said that this conclusion was based on the results from the

Chennai: Proclaiming to the world, ‘The Iron Age began on Tamil soil,’ Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said, with immense pride and unmatched satisfaction, that the use of iron in Tamil

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,

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.

Releasing the 73-page report with proof of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates obtained from globally acclaimed laboratories and validated by 10 experts from across the country,