On a remote island in northern Norway, metal detectorists stumbled upon a pair of bronze treasures. The small artifacts ...

For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened male. No more. The warrior was ...

581. Christer Åhlin, Swedish History Museum/Antiquity Publications Ltd An incredible grave containing the skeleton of a Viking warrior, long thought to be male, has been confirmed as female ...

Viking warriors have a historical reputation ... All that’s known for sure, they say, is that the skeleton assessed in the new report belonged to a woman who moved to the town where she was ...

Archaeologists in Norway recently unearthed the remains of a Viking ship at a burial mound in the country's Trøndelag region. The discovery comes centuries after a "seated skeleton" and a sword ...

A new study of a 10th-century Viking skeleton shows the buried warrior was a woman. Study co-author and archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson from Uppsala University in Sweden says ...

The 10th-century skeleton, the researchers concluded, is the first confirmed female high-ranking Viking warrior. Scientists had long assumed that the skeleton was male – despite early ...

The Viking in his 20s died from injuries to his head, while the Viking in his 50s has battle wounds on his skeleton, suggesting he was an active warrior. The first skeleton was excavated near ...

For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened male. No more. The warrior was ...

For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened man. No more. The warrior was ...