which contains very few female skeletons buried alongside weapons. And while it’s tempting to assume that she must have been a warrior woman, the study authors urge caution before jumping to any ...

(Isles of Scilly Museum Association/Historic England) Iron Age remains found on the Isles of Scilly belonged to a female warrior, according to the authors of a new study that challenges long-held ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of a 2,000-year-old grave that has intrigued archaeologists for more than two decades — and that they now believe belonged to a young female warrior ...

A recent study led by Dr. Balázs Tihanyi and his colleagues, published in PLOS ONE, has led to the positive identification of the first-known female burial with weapons in the 10th-century ...

In Birka, Sweden, there is a roughly 1,000-year-old Viking burial teeming with lethal weapons — a sword, an ax-head, spears, knives, shields and a quiver of arrows — as well as riding ...

A tooth enamel test found the bones were from a woman who was likely to be an Iron-Age female warrior. Scientists tested for protein in tooth enamel, to discover whether the skeleton was once a ...

In the East, legendary female warriors could cut down an enemy ... did not set out to be a warrior. But after her husband, the Iceni ruler, died in 60 B.C., the Romans whipped her and raped ...

Picture: AFP Her DNA tells another, more detailed story. “The Viking warrior female showed genetic affinity to present-day inhabitants of the British Islands (England and Scotland), the North ...

Here’s your guide to the history of these warrior women. The Agojie, also known as the Dahomey Amazons by Europeans, were an all-female group of warriors, who existed in the West African Kingdom ...