Female Viking warriors aren't a myth. DNA tests show a high-ranking Viking found in a 10th-century grave was a woman. Viking warrior woman confirmed by DNA testing - CNET ...

Researchers from Stockholm University and Uppsala University uncovered new DNA evidence proving that female Viking warriors existed. The testing identified some of the remains in the iconic mid ...

A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE. 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 ...

A controversial set of remains that has long sparked debate among archaeologists does, in fact, represent a female Viking warrior, a new study has concluded based on DNA evidence.

A Female Viking Warrior Was Found In Birka . The burial site, dubbed Bj 581, in Birka, Sweden, was brimming with all kinds of artifacts. Due to ...

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 ...

Stories and poems from the Medieval era contain accounts of fearsome female Viking warriors, yet historians and anthropologists have argued that such accounts are based in myth. A DNA analysis of ...

A DNA analysis has proven that there were female Viking warriors, so people shouldn’t jump to conclusions about the roles of men and women in ancient societies, scientists say.

One of the female residents of the farm may once have owned the Hårby Valkyrie and used it as a symbol of power. MORE ASTONISHING ARTIFACTS — Słupcio: A 6,000-year-old amber 'gummy bear' that ...

Mysterious, ancient female figurines have been found by the dozens all over Denmark, and as far afield as England and Russia: inch-long bronze depictions of long-haired women, often wearing ...

A medieval woman warrior found in a Danish grave was no Viking. Analysis of her weapon suggests she was Slavic, likely from a region in Europe that is now Poland.