Her skeleton shows no obvious trauma indicative of battle wounds, but archaeologists of Viking graves say there are often none found on male warrior skeletons.

An incredible grave containing the skeleton of a Viking warrior, long thought to be male, has been confirmed as female, researchers say.

The skeleton was buried with a sword, ax, arrows, spear, knife and shields — equipment that long “blinded” archaeologists to its gender.

Pylos Combat Agate is a 3500-year-old masterpiece of ancient art, technology IT’s tiny. Its intricacy is invisible to the naked eye. And the level of detail deftly carved into this ancient gem ...

Italy's police squad for art says a pre-Christian warrior's skeleton has been found floating in a tomb filled with sea water on a beach near Rome.

A heritage group are battling for a warrior skeleton to be returned 200 miles home from Oxford University - after it's spent two centuries away from the cave it was found. The 'Red Lady' of ...

Archaeologists tie ancient bones to a revolt chronicled on the Rosetta Stone The skeleton provides a rare glimpse into an uprising around 2,200 years ago ...

A 4,500-year-old skeleton of a warrior has been found on an Italian beach almost intact.

Experts say the body of a Viking warrior is a female having been thought to belong to a male for more than 100 years.

A 4,000-year-old skeleton found on farmland in West Sussex was probably a warrior chief who was killed in battle, scientists reveal.

The remains of an ancient female warrior have been discovered in South Kazakhstan. The perfectly preserved skeleton, believed to be a woman based on the skull's size and shape, was found with a ...