Scientists have reconstructed the face of a 1,000-year-old Viking woman buried with weapons — complete with a battle scar, reshaping ideas of Norse gender roles.

“From the ornamentation, we were able to date it to the Swedish Viking Age, somewhere between 800 and 1050 C.E.,” Karl-Oskar Erlandsson, an archaeologist at the Kalmar County Administrative ...

An “attentive private person” has made an astonishing discovery in a Swedish wetland: an extremely rare Viking-era arm brace, forged from iron, a deviation from the typical silver and bronze.

On the Swedish island of Öland, a passerby recently noticed something peeking out of a wetland. As they approached, they thought it was nothing more than a rusty brown loop, but it instead turned out ...

A person visited a wetland in Öland and found a 1,000-year-old iron armband, officials said. Photos show the highly decorated Viking jewelry. Google Street View ...

An attentive passerby noticed something in a wetland in Sweden and picked up a rusty brown loop. The item turned out to be a rare Viking artifact. The finder, who chose to remain anonymous ...