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  2. Vix Grave - Wikipedia

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    A protrusion at its centre supports a 19 cm statuette of moulded bronze, depicting a woman with one outstretched arm, which once may have held some object such as a plastinx. She wears a peplos, the body-length Ancient Greek garment worn by women, and her head is covered by a veil. The statuette appears of a somewhat older style than figures on ...

  3. Ancient Celtic women - Wikipedia

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    The position of ancient Celtic women in their society cannot be determined with certainty due to the quality of the sources. On the one hand, great female Celts are known from mythology and history; on the other hand, their real status in the male-dominated Celtic tribal society was socially and legally constrained.

  4. Archaeologists Dug Up a Royal Grave—and Found a Secret ...

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    Archaeologists discovered a wooden Celtic burial chamber inside a southern Germany burial mound. Dated to between 620 and 450 B.C., these mounds were reserved for high-ranking individuals.

  5. Ancient DNA suggests women were at the heart of social ...

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    A patchwork of tribes with closely related languages and art styles – sometimes referred to as Celtic – lived in England before the Roman invasion in 43 A.D. Valuable items have been found buried with Celtic women, and Roman writers, including Julius Caesar, wrote with disdain about their relative independence and fighting prowess.

  6. Ca' Morta tomb - Wikipedia

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    The Ca' Morta tomb is a Celtic chariot tomb located in the necropolis of the same name to the west of the city of Como, in Italy's Lombardy region.The burial chamber, covered by a tumulus, contains the ashes of a woman of princely status, accompanied by furnishings.

  7. Boudica - Wikipedia

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    Boudica or Boudicca (/ ˈ b uː d ɪ k ə, b oʊ ˈ d ɪ k ə /, from Brythonic *boudi 'victory, win' + *-kā 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug, pronounced [ˈbɨðɨɡ]) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61.

  8. Jewelry-laden woman was buried 1,600 years ago. Her ... - AOL

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    The ancient burial was found in the courtyard of a Roman farm that was established in the first century, researchers said. It was buried beneath layers of rubbish. ... The woman was buried in a ...

  9. Haraldskær Woman - Wikipedia

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    Haraldskær Woman on display in a glass-covered sarcophagus in Vejle, Denmark. The Haraldskær Woman (or Haraldskjaer Woman) is the name given to a bog body of a woman preserved in a bog in Jutland, Denmark, and dating from about 490 BC (pre-Roman Iron Age). [1] [2] Workers found the body in 1835 while excavating peat on the Haraldskær Estate.