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 ...

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

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 ...

Norse legends feature such female warriors as Hervor and Brynhildr. And neither meek nor mild, Viking women were depicted in medieval art and literature as political leaders and priests.

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly qualities or who became a man, raising the question of whether female ...

Stories and poems from the Medieval era contain accounts of fearsome female Viking warriors ... contained a host of items indicative of a warrior, including a sword, axe, spear, battle knife ...

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 ...

New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided ...

(Evald Hansen) The skeleton was found surrounded by fine weapons — a sword, a battle axe ... continuously reoccurring in art as well as in poetry, the women warriors have generally been ...