Ancient Greek vases have revealed the hidden names of Amazons, mythology's warrior women, in a report deciphering ancient languages unspoken for millennia. In the forthcoming study of pottery dating ...

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 ...

A mosaic depicting an Amazon warrior armed with a labrys, engaged in combat with a hippeus. (Credit: Jacques MOSSOT/CC-by-3.0/Wikimedia Commons) Penthesilea was an epic warrior, the prodigy of none ...

Ancient remains of a suspected “Amazon warrior” have been identified as a girl no older than 13 years old. The 2,600-year-old teenager is also said to have a visible wart and a range of war-like grave ...