Comedy female soldier in ancient tomb 1,000 years

The female warrior buried next to the weapon was an ax, but there were no obvious wounds on the bone to determine the cause of death.

Illustration of a female soldier buried next to an ax in the tomb in Denmark.(Photo: Mirosław Kuźma).

Scientists discovered the remains of mysterious female warriors in a Viking grave in Denmark, Fox News reported on July 26. However, this woman is most likely not a Viking but a Slavic , from a place in Eastern Europe, according to researchers at the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

"The new study shows that Slavic warriors appear in Denmark more than people ever thought," said Dr. Leszek Gardeła at the University of Bonn. In the Middle Ages, Denmark was a place where Slavans and Scandinavians lived together.

Dr. Leszek Gardeła studied an ancient ax.(Photo: Mira Fricke).

Tomb of female warrior is the only tomb containing weapons in the ancient graveyard. Here, the researchers also discovered an Arab coin from the 10th century, showing that the graveyard was built about 1,000 years ago.

"Fortunately, in this woman's grave, bones are preserved. However, there are no obvious wounds that help indicate the cause of death," Dr Gardela said. The ax is buried with similar tools from the southern Baltic, which now includes Baltic coastal countries like Poland, Germany, and Lithuania. The female soldier's grave structure also reminds of how to build the cemetery of this area in the Middle Ages.

Earlier this year, archaeologists confirmed a remains of a grave once thought to be male, actually belonging to a Viking warrior female. Last year, an 8-year-old girl found a 1,500-year-old sword in a lake in Sweden, which could survive the Viking period.