Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credits: National Geographic Viking Warrior Women is a 2019 period drama that is now available to watch and stream online. The ...

New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided about what that means. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Scientists say DNA tests on a skeleton found in a lavish Viking warrior's grave in Sweden show the remains are those of a woman in her 30s. While bone experts had long suspected the remains belong to ...

Was there such a thing as a female Viking warrior? That question has come up at different times throughout academic research on the Viking Age, and brought with it varying degrees of debate. At the ...

In the 1870s a Viking trading post was discovered on the Swedish island of Björkö. Archaeologists unearthed a rich collection of burial chambers filled with amber, textiles, gold and silver. One ...

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history. In an ancient cemetery in Sárrétudvari, Hungary, archaeologists have ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Vikings were known for brutality and chauvinism as they pillaged their way across Europe, but a new book has claimed that some of the Nordic warriors might have ...