Archaeologists in coastal Norway have uncovered a Viking-Age grave that is forcing specialists to rethink what they know about death, ritual, and identity in the early medieval north. At the center of ...

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In 2017, a team of Swedish archaeologists announced an exciting discovery: They had, for the first time, identified the remains of a Viking woman warrior. A DNA analysis of a Viking Age skeleton ...

In the 1800s, archaeologists dug up a major Norse find in Sweden. A chamber grave located in the Viking town of Birka included a highly decorative tomb from the 10th century. The site was believed to ...

A 10th-century grave in Denmark was long thought to contain the bones of a warrior believed to be a Viking woman. But a new analysis of the grave, located on the island of Langeland, suggests that the ...

The saying goes that a dog is a man’s best friend, but an archaeological excavation in Norway proves that women care about their four-legged companions just as much as men do, even 1,100 years ago.

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 from ...

Finding a single female skeleton provides very little real information, even if it were buried in the right grave with full warrior honors. Our own semi-recent history is chock full of women who ...

There's a background character in The Northman you probably blinked and missed. But her appearance, however brief, electrified me more than any other thrill in director Robert Eggers' bombastic new ...