Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Dec. 28, 2020. The audio is available here. For centuries, scholars assumed that Greek myths about fierce warrior women they called Amazons were just ...

Recent archeological finds reveal that the Greek mythological Amazons, ferocious woman warriors, may have been real. Legends have described the Amazons as horseback-riding, bow-wielding nomads from ...

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The painting is drawn on a white-ground pyxis, a cylindrical box with a lid that was used by women to keep either cosmetics or jewelry. The image itself is of an Amazon warrior on horseback, in battle ...

The remains of four ancient warrior women were recently discovered in Russia, marking the first time ever Scythian fighting females have been found in the same tomb. According to Russia’s RAS ...

The Amazons were fierce women warriors of the ancient world who supposedly maimed their male offspring, sliced off one breast to better shoot arrows, and both battled and romanced the ancient Greeks.

War has been a constant throughout human history, yet most of the classic stories we read focus on men. That’s perhaps why 2017’s Wonder Woman was such a smash hit — audiences clearly crave greater ...

The Amazons, a mythical race of female warriors that inspired fictional heroes such as Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess, may have been more than ancient Greek lore. The Institute of ...