A recent study led by Dr. Balázs Tihanyi and his colleagues, published in PLOS ONE, has led to the positive identification of the first-known female burial with weapons in the 10th-century ...

Although some weapons have been found in other female Viking graves, none included only weapons – or so many of them. “This is exactly what you would expect from male warrior graves,” said ...

1,000-year-old skeleton found buried with archery equipment in Hungary was female, study says. Could she have been a warrior? It’s complicated ...

For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened man. No more. The warrior was, in ...

A medieval woman warrior found in a Danish grave was no Viking. Analysis of her weapon suggests she was Slavic, likely from a region in Europe that is now Poland.

Mademoiselle de Maupin was most famous for her fencing and her singing in the Paris Opera. Most talk about weapons today involves firearms. But one Milwaukee museum curator wanted to examine how ...

1,000-year-old skeleton found buried with archery equipment in Hungary was female, study says. Could she have been a warrior? It’s complicated ...

1,000-year-old skeleton found buried with archery equipment in Hungary was female, study says. Could she have been a warrior? It’s complicated ...