3000 year old burial of female warrior. After extracting the roughly 1000 year old. Chock full of weapons gaming equipment and two horses the 10th century ad burial was assumed to be that of a powerful male viking warrior. Researchers reaffirm remains in viking warrior tomb belonged to a woman.
The discovery of the burial 50 years ago had revealed that a great turkic state with its own written language existed 2500 years ago. Experts say the remains are approximately 1000 years old and the skull clearly took a terrible blow perhaps in battle. Viking warrior discovered in sweden was a woman researchers confirm.
The ancient warrior was given a prestigious viking burial complete with deadly viking weapons a bag of gaming pieces possibly to represent military command and two horses one bridled for riding. More than 3000 viking graves. That the high status grave bj 581 on birka was the burial of a high.
This 3500 year old greek tomb upended what we thought we knew about the roots of western civilization. It has over 3000 triangular gold plates and is engraved with leopard eagle panther ram deer mountain goat horse and bird motifs. The grave about 1000 years old includes the bones of the warrior woman along with an axe and an arab coin from the 10th century which helped date the burial.
The warrior was around 30 years old at death and relatively tall for the time standing at five and a half feet. This high ranking viking warrior was a woman. 2500 year old gold armor of scythian warrior exhibited in turkey.
1000 year old viking fortress uncovered in denmark. And a photo of that reconstruction shows the warrior woman looks startlingly like any woman encountered on the street today albeit with evidence of some serious blow to the forehead.