Have a holly jolly holiday and tune into exciting programming about the natural world at the museum this December Lyric Aquino Once feared extinct, black-footed ferrets have rebounded thanks partly to ...

Archeologists recently uncovered a massive cache of jewelry, silver coins, and other relics at ancient gravesites in western Norway. At least three of them appear to belong to a trio of highly ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

In Norway, the grave of a Viking woman has been found with shells covering her mouth, a unique and unprecedented burial ...

When a metal detector beeped on the Norwegian island of Senja, archaeologists suspected it may be Vikings. But they weren’t suspecting anything like this. Just 20 centimeters beneath the soil, they ...

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The Vikings of legend were fearless male warriors who raided coastal towns across Europe. But archaeological research shows that Viking women were just as integral to the expansion of Viking society ...

The saying goes that a dog is a man’s best friend, but an archaeological excavation in Norway proves that women care about their four-legged companions just as much as men do, even 1,100 years ago.

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield. An artist recreates what a Viking woman warrior from ...

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