Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
In 1878, archaeologists opened a burial chamber in an important Viking trade center known as Birka and found the remains of what they assessed as a high-ranking Viking warrior. The person was buried with their weapons, grand clothes, and two horses.
They assumed the remains were male, but back in 2017, a DNA study concluded that the remains were biologically female.
Critics of the findings argued that the weapons could have…
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