Toplak and Lukas Kerk examine two significant forms of body modification from the Viking Age: filed teeth and artificially modified skulls. These modifications were not just cosmetic; they served ...

Viking life wasn’t just tough, it was often chronically painful. For proof, all you need to do is examine their skulls ... Researchers were hesitant to draw larger historic conclusions given ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

The elongated, cone-shaped skulls of Viking Age women buried on the Baltic island of Gotland may be evidence of trading contacts with the Black Sea region, a new study finds. The women's skulls ...

New research has revealed the horrors of the Viking age, as the study of skulls showed evidence of devastating disease and infections. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden used ...

For the first time, scientists have printed a 3-D replica of the skeleton of one of history's most famous Viking rulers ... I've also played Hamlet with his skull." The king's skeleton was ...