Scientists say they have solved the mystery of a 2,000-year-old grave that has intrigued archaeologists for more than two decades — and that they now believe belonged to a young female warrior ...

(Isles of Scilly Museum Association/Historic England) Iron Age remains found on the Isles of Scilly belonged to a female warrior, according to the authors of a new study that challenges long-held ...

In Birka, Sweden, there is a roughly 1,000-year-old Viking burial teeming with lethal weapons — a sword, an ax-head, spears, knives, shields and a quiver of arrows — as well as riding ...

A tooth enamel test found the bones were from a woman who was likely to be an Iron-Age female warrior. Scientists tested for protein in tooth enamel, to discover whether the skeleton was once a ...

The individuals buried in the Sárrétudvari-Hízóföld cemetery, including the female warrior (SH-63), likely shared similar ...

Picture: AFP Her DNA tells another, more detailed story. “The Viking warrior female showed genetic affinity to present-day inhabitants of the British Islands (England and Scotland), the North ...

A recent study led by Dr. Balázs Tihanyi and his colleagues, published in PLOS ONE, has led to the positive identification of the first-known female burial with weapons in the 10th-century ...