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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since its discovery in 1999, archaeologists have mulled back-and-forth over the sex of the individual that possessed both a mirror and a sword ... other 'hidden' female warriors during the ...

New archaeological findings may reveal how women fought as warriors in the Iron Age ... archaeologists unearthed a sword and shield alongside the remains of an individual.

No other Western European Iron Age grave includes a sword, typically found in male burials from that region, and a mirror, often associated with female burials. One possible use of the mirror was ...