Archaeologists have found the remains of downy pillows in the graves of two high-ranking Iron Age warriors in Sweden ... one piece—except for the missing head, that is.

Iron age warriors were laid to rest in an ancient burial ... “It’s conceivable that the owl’s head was cut off to prevent it from coming back. Maybe the owl feather in the bedding also ...

In an Iron Age cemetery ... further hinted at the warriors' high-ranking status, though one of the animals — a Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) — was missing its head. Its decapitation may ...

The Greek historian Didorus Siculus also wrote of how Iron Age warriors embalmed the heads of their victims in cedar oil, and kept them in chests to show strangers. And it was said northern tribes ...