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.

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 ...

The warriors were buried with several layers of feather bedding. NTNU University Museum More than a millennium ago, two Iron Age warriors ... The removal of the raptor’s head may have been ...