We’ve seen the ancient female warriors called Amazonians referenced in multiple movies and shows (Wonder Woman is an Amazon, if you remember). For a long period of time, researchers thought that female warriors were merely fictitious in nature. However, thanks to recent excavations, discoveries, and development of new technologies that can analyze remains, scientists and historians can now confirm that female warriors were in fact real, as Inverse details:
Scientists now believe the amazons described by the greeks were actually scythian warrior women — nomads who ranged from the black sea to china between 200 and 900 bce.
In 1988 scientists in Russia unearthed a scythian skeleton.
the body was entombed in a wooden sarcophagus and surrounded by weapons, including a quiver filled with arrows.
in june 2020, genetic analysis of the remains proved the body belonged to a girl.
In 2019, the don expedition, headed by scientists at the russian academy of sciences uncovered the graves of four female warriors.
Image via Inverse
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Ireland has a history of female warriors. Some legendarily awesome.
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