Women Warriors Ran the Ancient World in Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Imagined Past The Hirshhorn’s show, “A Countervailing Theory,” posits a society where gender roles are reversed ...

The statue will be part of “Ancient Huasteca Women: Goddesses, Warriors and Governors” at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. By Zoë Lescaze The woman, carved in pale stone, wears ...

Ala Ebtekar imagines women as warriors 'Re-emergence': Iranian American artist imagines today's women as warriors donning the armor of ancient Persia By Alexandria Regilio June 17, 2010 ...

The Old Norse sagas contained intriguing stories of warrior women. Danish scholar Saxo Grammaticus included several of these legendary female figures in his book Gesta Danorum—Story of the Danes ...

From Warrior Women to Female Pharaohs: ... The Remarkable Women of Ancient Egypt by B Lesko (Providence, ... science and art that has been the hallmark of the world's first industrial city.

As the author of The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World, Adrienne Mayor is well-equipped to separate fact and fiction when it comes to Wonder Woman’s Amazon ...

Archaeologists found these skeletons of two people buried in an ancient tomb in Mongolia. The woman (left) may have been a horse-riding, bow-and-arrow-wielding warrior.

In 2020, when the “Apsáalooke Women and Warriors” exhibit opened at the Field Museum in Chicago, it was the first major exhibit curated by a Native American scholar and the ...

But she’s best known around the world as the leading female teacher of the ancient Hawaiian warrior art called Lua. “I am a kumu lua of the Kaihewalu lua lineage,” she said. Earlier in life ...

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 ...

Three generations of ancient women warriors were recently uncovered in a Russian tomb. Buried with dozens of weapons, ...