What would life be like without men? On this tiny Baltic island, it’s business as usual. But its colorful, folkloric way of life is threatened by a dwindling population. By Hillary Richard In the ...

MOORHEAD - Vikings are commonly perceived as burly barbarians that always wore horned helmets and drank from the skulls of their enemies. In reality, the Nordic seafarers that lived between the 8th ...

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 ...

In recent years, some incredible Viking discoveries have made in Scandinavia. Archaeologists found remains of longhouses and at least one ship lying just below the topsoil in Norway last year. Months ...

The traditional picture of Vikings is one of boatloads of hairy men pillaging their way along the coasts of Europe. Though true to some degree, this stereotype has more recently been tempered with the ...

Archaeology has a representation problem. For most of the time that scholars have been probing the human past, they have focused mainly on the activities of men to the exclusion of women. There are a ...

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