New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield. An artist recreates what a Viking woman warrior ...

Originally practiced by Huns and in southeastern Europe, skull elongation had never before been observed in Viking burials. But its presence among three 8th to 11th-century women buried in Gotland ...

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 ...

One of the women’s graves featured stones carefully arranged in the shape of a long Viking boat, likely as a ritual to aid her journey to the afterlife, they added. Archaeology breakthrough ...

These were not passive bodies. Together with recent studies of Viking women buried as warriors, this provokes further thought to how we envisage gender roles in the oft-perceived hyper-masculine ...

But archaeological research shows that Viking women were just as integral to the expansion of Viking society as their male counterparts if not more so, thanks to a vital trade in their homespun ...