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.

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

A man digging in his yard to build an extension of his house in southern Norway has unearthed the 1,100-year-old grave of a Viking warrior who was buried with weapons. The finds include a rusty ...

Vikings were also merchants, traders, and farmers. Fernbank Museum of Natural History ’s newest exhibit, “ Vikings: Warriors of the Sea,” takes a closer look at the people who lived from ...