Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.
Artemisia, named after the Goddess Artemis, sister of Apollo, is the only woman Herodotus attributes with the virtue of courage, or andreia, an almost impossible quality for a woman to possess ...
Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.
Other murals that researchers have found since studying the site include images of warriors ... the throne room of a queen ...
Although hers was many more in number, as presenter Bridget Kendall puts it, the warrior queen’s undisciplined and ill-equipped men “were no match for the better trained and skilled and well-a ...
With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...
The Celtic queen who shook the Roman Empire. Wife of a king. Mother of two daughters. Leader of her tribe in first century Briton. Boudica is one of history's first and fiercest women warriors.