Exactly why the sculpture was attacked by University of Georgia students may always be a mystery. But 70 years later, restored, it rides again.

In 333 BCE, near the small Pinarus River along the modern-day borders of Turkey and Syria, a fierce battle took place between the forces of Alexander the Great and the Persian king Darius III. Here, in the Battle of Issus,

Scientists from Trinity College, Dublin, and Bournemouth University collaborated to learn about the societies of Iron Age Celts and Britain.

Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was centered around women, a study said.

PARIS - Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said on Wednesday.

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

"It's lovely for Worcestershire to have a story that fits into a historical framework that's known nationally and internationally." Formally declared treasure, the Worcestershire Conquest Hoard, as it is known,

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.

When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or at least, that’s how Julius Caesar and other witnesses described the situation in this new and strange territory.

A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is believed to be the first time such a system has been documented in European prehistory.

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women participating in public affairs, exercising political influence — and having more than one husband.