Women warriors appear in myths across the world. Yet historical sources and archaeological finds show the female warrior is not just a myth.

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 ...

Meet the real Amazons: horse-riding, arrow-flinging women who fought alongside men and were feared by them too. Illustration of a battle scene between Amazons and Greeks on a terracotta lekythos (oil ...

The tomb of a battle-scarred ancient female warrior discovered in Armenia is revealing its secrets. The woman’s remains, which date to the 8th to 6th-century B.C., were found at the ancient necropolis ...

One of the great things about computer games is that anything is possible – except women who fight, apparently.

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.

For more than a century, Hollywood has shaped our collective image of ancient Greek armor. Whether depicting the fall of Troy, Odysseus' journey or the rise of Alexander the Great, movies often ...