annals of wishful thinking New evidence of Viking warrior women might not be what it seems Experts cast doubt on a recent DNA discovery in a mysterious Swedish grave.

Female Viking warriors aren't a myth. A DNA study of a skeleton shows a high-ranking Viking was a woman.

The tale of the Viking woman warrior from Birka continues to capture our imaginations. She has even been called a "real-life Viking version" of Game of Thrones ' iconic female knight, Brienne of ...

Sarah Percy’s global history of female fighters on the battlefield stretches from Viking-era Europe to 20th-century Vietnam and beyond.

A woman buried with archery equipment in 10th-century Hungary is unusual but may not necessarily have been a warrior.

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

Viking Age woman was buried with her dog in an elaborate 'boat grave,' excavations reveal Elite Celtic warrior had healed arrowhead injury in his pelvis, 3D bone analysis reveals ...

The site reflected the ideal of Viking male warrior life, or so many archaeologists had thought. New DNA analyses of the bones, however, confirm a revelatory find: the grave belonged to a woman.

More than a thousand years ago, a Viking woman was laid to rest with the full honors of a mighty warrior, including weapons, armor and two horses. But when researchers discovered her remains in ...

An incredible grave containing the skeleton of a Viking warrior, long thought to be male, has been confirmed as female, researchers say. The 10th-century grave, known as Bj. 581, was first discover… ...

It wasn’t until 2017 that historians realized that the Viking warrior in question was actually a woman. Utilizing genomic sequencing, the archaeologists proved that female fighters not only ...

Celtic women, like some of their female Viking counterparts, were acknowledged as wielding a weapon in battle as well as a man. In the series Vikings one of the most popular characters was the ...