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

Three generations of ancient women warriors were recently uncovered in a Russian tomb. Buried with dozens of weapons, ...

In an earthen pit in central China, under what used to be their village’s persimmon orchard, three middle-aged women are hunched over an ancient jigsaw ... into a full-size warrior, but today ...

Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking warrior ideal that dominates today's modern reimaginings of this ancient history ... Then an armor-clad woman on horseback storms ...