The Viking-era gravesite was discovered on the outskirts of Linköping, a city in southern Sweden, in fall 2022. Arkeologerna. Archaeologists soon found that the person in the grave had been ...

Swedish archaeologists recently found an "unusual" Viking-era coffin dating back over 1,100 years. The discovery was announced by Arkeologerna, an archaeological organization affiliated with the ...

Additionally, with the cooperation of archaeologists researching Viking-age house sites, we have explored the escape tunnels that were a part of many Viking homes, used in case of attack.

A final strand of investigation was to look for evidence for obstetric deaths in the Viking burial record. Maternal-infant death rates are thought to be very high in most pre-industrial societies.

"We haven't opened a Viking grave in Norway for the past 100 years," Bredesen told Newsweek. "It's quite spectacular that they have opened it at all." From left: Archaeologists dig out the bottle ...

Together with recent studies of Viking women buried as warriors, this provokes further thought to how we envisage gender roles in the oft-perceived hyper-masculine Viking societies.