For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened male. No more.The warrior was, in ...

DNA testing has confirmed that women were Viking warriors, not just men. Yet even with DNA evidence on the side of women wielding Viking swords, some experts still don't believe it.

Female Viking warriors aren't a myth. A DNA study of a skeleton shows a high-ranking Viking was a woman.

Viking Warrior Queen Season 18 Episode 4 | 55m 21sVideo has Closed Captions| CC Join archaeologists examining the history-changing DNA of a female Viking warrior.

The remains of a powerful Viking — long thought to be a man — was in fact a real-life Xena Warrior Princess, a study released Friday reveals. The lady war boss was buried in the mid-10th ...

When an impressive Viking grave containing weapons, horses and even a board game was excavated in the 1880s, it was simply assumed that the skeleton belonged to a man.

It's a hell of a story: DNA analysis of a 10th century skeleton found at a burial in the Swedish town of Birka -- a huge trade hub -- revealed that a Viking military leader was actually a woman ...

But, in 2016, researchers reexamined the Viking’s skeleton and saw indicators that lead them to believe the warrior was female.

The skeleton was buried with a sword, ax, arrows, spear, knife and shields — equipment that long “blinded” archaeologists to its gender.

Viking culture is becoming a big theme in Swedish tourism, and the Viking burial ground where the tomb is has been an attraction since it was discovered in the 1880s.

The grave of a Viking warrior has been revealed beyond reasonable doubt to belong to a woman, challenging our understanding of ancient societies.

The study—which included a DNA analysis of the skeleton—revealed that, in fact, the warrior was a woman, sending shockwaves through the world of Viking archaeology.