Epic Warrior Women: Vikings (8 p.m., Smithsonian) - This documentary reveals new groundbreaking archaeological findings from a small island in central Sweden that uncover a startling twist to history ...

"Where women are honoured, there the gods dwell." Yet, the Mahabharata—vast as the sky and deep as the ocean—contains within its folds women who defied this very idea. While the battlefield of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. During the 17th century, the Agooji were a battle-hardened, all-female warrior force that held a special place within the African kingdom of ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield. An artist recreates what a Viking woman warrior from ...

New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided about what that means. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When France sent ambassador Jean-Marie Bayol to Dahomey to secure a deal for the kingdom's rich natural resources, he was greeted by an elite ...

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history. In an ancient cemetery in Sárrétudvari, Hungary, archaeologists have ...