The grave, known to archaeologists as Bj 581, was first excavated in Birka, Sweden, in 1871. For more than a century, the wealth of weapons—including a sword, axe, and armor-piercing arrows—led experts to assume the occupant was a male warrior. This view was so entrenched that even when an osteological analysis in 2014 suggested the bones might be female, the finding was met with significant skepticism. It took a conclusive DNA study to finally confirm the warrior was biologically female. While
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