Now that recovery work is underway, the team has confirmed the site holds an unexpected scene: a Viking boat grave for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the center of the boat were two skeletons. The skeleton of an ancient woman found in the Viking-era boat grave. Photo from the Arctic University Museum of Norway The larger skeleton belonged to ...

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 ...