Like some of the bracelets, this sword's scabbard has ocelli. The long sword has "all the ... Weapon-filled burials are ...

In 873-874, a Viking army is believed to have ... left leg of the skeleton in Grave 511 at Repton. The sword was sheathed in a wooden scabbard that was lined with fleece and covered with leather.

Norway, like Sweden and Finland, has a knife-making tradition that goes back to a time when Scandinavians wore chain mail shirts, gave their swords pet ... discovered in a Viking tomb.

Pregnancy was deeply political and far from uniform in meaning for Viking-age communities. It shaped – and was shaped by – ...

Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers—and a harsh world where not ...

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly ...

Secrets of Viking world uncovered in new study - Pregnant women wielded swords and wore martial helmets, experts reveal ...

Both the sword and the sheath are made from some of the most valuable materials from Napoleon's era. Giquello “Do you know what fills me most with wonder?” Napoleon once reportedly asked the ...

Archaeologists discovered a Celtic necropolis from the second Iron Age filled with metal artifacts. The team located two ...

What it tells us about the past: This cast silver figurine of a Valkyrie — a mythological maiden who assists Odin, the Norse god of war — is a unique example of Viking Age metalworking that ...

AN ANCIENT sword engraved with swastikas and forged long before Jesus walked the Earth has been discovered in a Celtic Iron ...