Like all women of their time, Asellina and Zmyrina could not vote. But they found influence in their own ways. Asellina owned ...

Xena the Greek warrior princess, who started as an antagonist of Hercules, captivated audiences around the world more than 20 ...

Countless ancient Greek sculptures and paintings depict these women as athletic ... as powerful cavalry warriors, which aligns with the their portrayal in Greco-Roman mythology and also with ...

Ancient Greek and Roman historians reported that Cyrus of ... (Greek pottery reveals the real names of Scythian warrior women.) Recent discoveries have further strengthened the theory that female ...

The statue will be part of “Ancient Huasteca Women: Goddesses, Warriors and Governors” at ... fought beast to entertain the subjects of the Roman Empire. Skeletons of the Roman Empire ...

After learning about the ancient Scythian Amazon warrior women being uncovered in Russia, read about the Slavic warrior woman buried with weaponry in a Danish Viking cemetery. Then, learn about ...

“There are lots of rumors that you see of high society women falling ... a strong warrior who wore heavy armor and covered his face with a helmet. English Heritage In ancient Rome, the fighters ...

Archaeologists recently found an ancient Roman helmet in an unusual location ... these costly pieces of armor were owned exclusively by the highest warrior elite in society." ...

Defined by the men in their lives, women in ancient Rome were valued mainly as wives and mothers. Although some were allowed more freedom than others, there was always a limit, even for the ...

A roughly 2,000-year-old woman with a potentially violent streak has emerged from skeletal rubble found on an island off southwestern England’s coast. A jumble of tooth and bone fragments in a ...