Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

Despite its central role in human history, pregnancy has often been overlooked in archaeology. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

ATLANTA — What do you know about Vikings? Did they wear horned helmets, carry large swords, and raid and pillage everything in their path on their journeys across the high seas? That’s part of their ...

Marianne Hem Eriksen leads the BODY-POLITICS project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no.