Archaeologists in coastal Norway have uncovered a Viking-Age grave that is forcing specialists to rethink what they know about death, ritual, and identity in the early medieval north. At the center of ...

The grave looked, at first, like a familiar Viking Age burial: a woman laid to rest with care, surrounded by objects meant to ...

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