Excavations revealed the graves of three highly respected and wealthy Viking women from the early ninth century.

Despite each grave’s wealth of jewelry and personal belongings, none contain any bones from the Viking women themselves. One possible reason has to do with the environmental conditions of Skumsnes.

Archaeologists recently found an artifact-filled Viking-era burial site in Denmark — revealing treasures that once belonged ...

Notably absent were items of jewelry that researchers had long associated with Viking women, including brooches. Based on the contents of this spectacular grave, ...

Archaeologists subsequently concluded that it was a Viking boat burial for an elite woman who lived over 1,100 years ago.

These men were buried with objects such as belts, knives, and brooches — typical markers of a certain social class — but the filed teeth might have acted as a more subtle, yet powerful, marker ...

They also indicate that the buried individual was a woman, given that oval brooches were usually Viking women’s jewelry, though only bone analysis can confirm this beyond a doubt.

One of the women’s graves featured stones carefully arranged in the shape of a long Viking boat, likely as a ritual to aid her journey to the afterlife, they added.

In total, archaeologists fully excavated the womens' two graves, and were able to analyze a third one that was not fully excavated but contained a gilded brooch and 25 glass beads.

Viking women’s gravesites unearthed to find jewelry, coins, and a ‘vulva stone’ Viking women’s gravesites unearthed to find jewelry, coins, and a ‘vulva stone’ By Andrew Paul ...

An x-ray of a soil block from the site revealed an oval brooch, an iconic Viking Age jewelry piece associated with women's garments, covered with wood and human remains.