A silver figurine from a 10th-century burial depicts a pregnant woman wearing a helmet, challenging traditional views.

Some figures carrying swords in Mycenaean art could be women ... on pictorial-style kraters from the Late Helladic period, known as Sword Bearers, may represent women instead of male warriors as ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where ...

The grave held a sword, usually buried with men ... “We might start to uncover more of these hidden female warriors,” she tells the Washington Post. Discovering that the grave belonged ...

In feudal Japan, the Onna-Bugeisha were fierce female warriors who defied gender norms to fight alongside samurai. Trained in ...

In the seven centuries samurai ruled Japan, women played an essential role in both creating and upholding the warrior state ... the ‘ways of the pen and the sword’, they were also ...

History books are filled with warriors—male warriors, that is. Less referenced are the women who took up spears ... and so dexterously did she handle sword and bow that she was a match for ...

When we think of samurai, images of battle-hardened, stoic, sword-wielding warriors often come to mind ... But, as we’ll see in the cases below, some women were proficient in the art of war and ...

LONDON — Experts puzzling over the buried remains of an ancient warrior found in a 2,000-year-old grave off the coast of Britain have concluded the person was female ... a sword and a shield ...

Particularly intriguing was the fact the grave on the Isles of Scilly contained both a sword — which would ... to uncover more of these hidden female warriors that previously we didn’t really ...