For centuries, scholars assumed that Greek myths about fierce warrior women called 'Amazons' were just that — myths. But new archaeology confirms what modern historians had begun to suspect: Amazons were very much real. (hereandnow)
For centuries, scholars assumed that Greek myths about fierce warrior women they called Amazons were just that — myths.from Stanford University had begun to suspect: Amazons were very much real, and they were actually Scythian nomads.
Notorious ancient Greek historians never doubted that Amazon women existed, she says, but modern historians and scholars haven’t been able to track down the myth’s origins and ultimately believed the warriors were products of the Greeks’ imagination. “They belong to tribes of nomads, of the steps. They roamed the vast territory of the region known in antiquity as Scythia. That was a land stretching from the Black Sea all the way east to Mongolia. The Chinese built the Great Wall of China to keep them out. So these were fierce warlike tribes. They were the first people to domesticate and then ride horses, and they perfected the invention of the recurve bow. So their lives centered on horses and archery.
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