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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Weapons in female graves were often interpreted as amulets or symbolic elements. However, the context of burial mound 63 suggests a more active function of the weapons.

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 ...

Facial reconstruction of the possible Viking warrior woman who was found in Norway. National Geographic. Al-Shamahi says that since the DNA analysis of the Birka warrior was published, pieces of ...

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.

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 ...