However, torques date back further, appearing in Europe in the Iron Age from around the 8th century BC, and showing up in cultures like the Viking and Celtic. On the other side of the ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial.

This tapestry also contains one of the only known depictions of a horned Viking helmet.

These are some of the realities uncovered by the first interdisciplinary study to focus on pregnancy in the Viking age, authored by myself, Kate Olley, Brad Marshall and Emma Tollefsen as part of ...

Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered that pregnant women were depicted in art and literature with martial gear ...

What it tells us about the past: This cast silver figurine of a Valkyrie — a mythological maiden who assists Odin, the Norse god of war — is a unique example of Viking Age metalworking that provides ...

Around 1,000 years ago, this Viking Age arm-ring from the Isle of Man was likely used not only to display its owner's wealth ...

"I've been detecting for many years now and found some wonderful things, but to find a piece of gold from the Viking Age, ...

The Oseberg tapestry is in the collection of the Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo. Experts continue to study the numerous fragments in an attempt to virtually stitch the tapestry back together ...

These are some of the realities uncovered by the first interdisciplinary study to focus on pregnancy in the Viking age, authored by myself, Kate Olley, Brad Marshall and Emma Tollefsen as part of ...

Pregnancy has perhaps been particularly overlooked in periods we mostly associate with warriors, kings and battles—such as the highly romanticized Viking age (the period from AD 800 until AD 1050).

BioWare has almost entirely moved on from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but that isn’t stopping its remaining team from sneakily adding a small DLC weapons pack to the game. Dragon Age fans ...