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

Some Viking women wielded great influence in the North ... (The graves of ‘woman warriors’ are changing what we know about ancient gender roles.) Beneath a huge earthen burial mound at ...

Regardless of the mystery’s resolution, the Skumsnes graves are prime examples highlighting the important roles women often played in ancient Viking culture, as well as the care given to them ...

"Though some Viking women buried with weapons are known, a female warrior of this importance has never been determined and Viking scholars have been reluctant to acknowledge the agency of women with ...

Related: 'If it was a man, we would say that's a warrior's grave': Weapon-filled burials are shaking up what we know about women's role in Viking society While sometimes regarded as an obscure ...

Sequencing the genomes of over 400 Viking men, women, and children from ancient burial sites, researchers found evidence of genetic influence from Southern Europe and Asia in Viking DNA dating ...

This month, visitors can find out how black-footed ferrets are coming back from the brink of extinction, why ancient Viking women used textile production as a means of expression and exciting new ...

A person buried at the ancient Viking site of Birka, alongside weapons and other equipment befitting a male Viking warrior, had no Y chromosome. She was a biological woman. Archaeologists had read ...

This pendant, found in a tenth-century woman's burial in Aska, Sweden, is the only known convincing depiction of pregnancy from the Viking age. It depicts a figure in female dress with the arms ...