An Iron Age grave on an English island mystified archaeologists for years. New research shows it belonged to a young woman — who may have been a warrior leader.

LONDON — Experts puzzling over the buried remains of an ancient warrior found in a 2,000-year-old grave off the coast of Britain have concluded the person was female.

Now, a new tooth analysis of the remains reveals that the person buried at the site, located on Isles of Scilly, an archipelago off of England's southwestern coast, was an Iron Age woman, likely a ...

Dr Miles Russell, the excavation's director and co-author on the study, commented: "Beyond archaeology, knowledge of Iron Age Britain has come primarily from the Greek and Roman writers, but they ...

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