One of the great things about computer games is that anything is possible – except women who fight, apparently.
Boudicca, who’s name means “Bringer of Victory,” was an ancient British Celtic queen who died around 60 CE, after leading her ...
Women warriors appear in myths across the world. Yet historical sources and archaeological finds show the female warrior is ...
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The Warrior Queen Who Took On RomeWhen the Roman Empire took her lands and harmed her daughters, the fearless Queen Boudica was not about ... Diet Plan That Transformed Him To Build A Warrior’s Physique! Unified Pension Scheme ...
Artemisia, named after the Goddess Artemis, sister of Apollo, is the only woman Herodotus attributes with the virtue of courage, or andreia, an almost impossible quality for a woman to possess ...
In ancient Pompeii, slaves are bought and sold for household chores and sex. A mysterious queen moves among the elite, meantime secretly helping the slaves to escape. Eventually her life is also ...
(The graves of ‘woman warriors’ are changing what we know about ancient gender roles.) Beneath a huge earthen burial mound at Oseberg in Norway, for example, researchers in 1903 discovered a ...
‘Donned the pharaoh’s beard for publicity purposes’ … head of the Ancient Egyptian Queen Makare Hatshepsut. Note the ‘beard’ on her chin. British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered ...
Although hers was many more in number, as presenter Bridget Kendall puts it, the warrior queen’s undisciplined and ill-equipped men “were no match for the better trained and skilled and well-a ...
The women covered include warrior queen Lakshmi Bai, sword master diplomat Chevalier d'Eon and Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who is believed to have killed more than 300 Nazi soldiers during ...
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