Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

Archaeologists have made an "unprecedented" discovery within the burial of a Viking woman, Gemini.no reported. The ninth-century burial site was excavated in Bjugn, located in the coast region of ...

The boat burial is significant not only because of its rarity but also due to the remarkable preservation of both the woman and the dog’s remains. The grave, which was found just beneath the surface ...

The saying goes that a dog is a man’s best friend, but an archaeological excavation in Norway proves that women care about their four-legged companions just as much as men do, even 1,100 years ago.

Researchers think the Viking Age boat burial of a woman and her pooch in Norway dates to between A.D. 900 and 950. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...