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

Last year, the discovery of an ax head on a mountaintop overlooking Norway’s Trondheim Fjord led archaeologists to a tenth-century Viking grave. Though they found no remains, the team recovered ...

We'll count that as yet another nod to actual archeological evidence that leadership roles in the Viking Age were far more gender-fluid than previously thought. Mashable Top Stories Stay connected ...

The note also highlights the tools and artifacts discovered at the site, including shields, swords, axes, and arrows—items ...

But it turned out to be a Viking Age iron arm bracelet that could be more than 1,000 years old. After the anonymous man discovered the artifact, he contacted a local archaeologist, who advised him ...

Under these conditions, the preservation of any Viking-Age structures is rare. “It’s crazy what they’ve found in such a small space when you think about it,” Irene told the News & Star.