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

Archaeologists uncovered “an unusually rich treasure trove” inside the graves of three wealthy women from the Viking Age, offering a window into their lives and activities in the 9 th century.

This autumn, they excavated three of those graves. They determined that they had belonged to wealthy Viking women, and they were filled with a small bounty of treasures indicating their high ...