Vivid scenes of women warriors in battle decorated buildings ... in battle scenes on painted pottery and temple friezes, but the "Wounded Amazon" figures were also popular with sculptors.

Were the Amazons of ancient Greek mythology — fierce female warriors said to have roamed ... of the Scythian women joined men in hunting and battle. "It is exhilarating to know that girls ...

while the girls were trained to become warriors. An encounter with the Greeks at the Battle of Thermodon ended this idyllic existence. Three shiploads of captured Amazons ran aground near Scythia ...

According to Russia’s RAS Institute of Archaeology, one of the Amazons was found for the first time wearing a rare ceremonial headdress. The Scythians were tribes of nomadic warriors who moved ...

These mythological warrior women were also among the most omnipresent figures in the art and literature of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Scarcely a classical temple did not feature a sculpted scene ...