Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed ...

An annual fire festival in Scotland is set to have women and girls involved in leading its torchlit procession for the first time. Up Helly Aa is held on the last Tuesday of January, and sees ...

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly qualities or who became a man, raising the question of whether female ...