Detail on the sword found in a 2,000 year-old Iron Age burial on Bryher in the Isles of Scilly. Historic England Archive. PLB K000686. The woman is thought to have died sometime in the 1st century ...

The excavated remains of the Avar warrior's burial. The warrior was buried with his horse, full armor and weapons. Déri Museum. The Avars settled in the region of the Carpathian Basin—which ...

Evidence indicates that bone fragments in a roughly 2,000-year-old grave in England, which also contained a sword and bronze mirror (shown), belonged to a woman who might have fought in or planned ...

The warrior was also buried with a short sword for slashing, called a seax, with an iron blade and a bronze handle; a heavy iron knife; and a spear, of which only the iron point survived.

Formed in 1202 by Bishop Albert of Riga, the Sword-Brothers were a brutal order of warrior monks sent to convert the Baltic pagans by force. With iron discipline and ruthless efficiency, they ...

Now, a new tooth analysis of the remains reveals that the person buried at the site, located on Isles of Scilly, an archipelago off of England's southwestern coast, was an Iron Age woman, likely a ...

The grave held a sword, usually buried with men, as well as a mirror, usually buried with women. Historic England Archive. In 1999, a farmer stumbled upon an Iron Age grave on Bryher, a small ...