Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

A ninth-century grave discovered in Norway held the remains of a Viking Age woman whose mouth was covered with two large scallop shells.