The grave held a sword, usually buried with men ... The grave belongs to a woman warrior who played a leading role in warfare, according to a study published yesterday in the Journal of ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The 2017 movie "Wonder Woman" (in theaters June 2 ... and so dexterously did she handle sword and bow that she was a match for 1,000 warriors, fit to meet either god or devil," the description ...

(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 ...

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 ...