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 ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Museum Odense An extraordinary Viking burial ground with the almost-complete skeletons of ...
Artist's impression of the occupant of grave Bj.581 as a high-status female warrior, left, and a sketch of grave Bj. 581. Christer Åhlin, Swedish History Museum/Antiquity Publications Ltd An ...
ATLANTA — Iceland’s “woman in blue,” the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking-era objects, was a child of some of the island’s earliest settlers, researchers reported ...
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The Viking age, spanning the 8th to 11th centuries AD, left a lasting mark on the genetics of today's Scandinavians, according to scientists who also documented the ...
In Birka, Sweden, there is a roughly 1,000-year-old Viking burial teeming with lethal weapons — a sword, an ax-head, spears, knives, shields and a quiver of arrows — as well as riding equipment and ...
On an island not far from what's now Stockholm, Sweden, a trading settlement called Birka was established around 750 CE. It's thought to have become the first real urban center in Scandinavia, housing ...
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