Warrior buried in a Swedish Viking grave was actually female When archaeologists excavated a Viking grave in the late 1800s and found weapons, they realized they’d found a warrior’s burial place. But it turned out that warrior was a woman.
Scientists: Pointless to rename the Viking Age The Steel Age could be a more appropriate name for what we call the Viking Age, says one archaeologist. But the new name is inappropriate, say her colleagues.
Viking invaders struck deep into the west of England and may have stuck around OPINION: There’s no shortage of evidence of Viking raids but historians now think that the Vikings conquered more of the British Isles than was previously thought.
Fashionable Vikings loved colours, fur, and silk The Vikings were skilled warriors, traders, and explorers, but a more fashionable side might also have existed.
New light shed on the Viking Age: Scandinavia’s oldest town was built 70 years earlier than thought The Danish town Ribe is the oldest town in Scandinavia. Now a new study suggests that Ribe may have become a town much earlier than thought.
