Warrior women of the Eurasian steppes: new evidence suggests that tales of Amazon warriors may be more than mere legend

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Greek legends of Amazon warrior women may have a factual basis in people called Sauromatians and Sarmatians, who lived in the steppes of southern Russia. Sauromatian women have been found with weapons in burial mounds near Pokrovka, Russia, on the border of Kazakhstan. The Sauromatians were reportedly a matriarchal tribe that resulted from the pairing of Amazons with Scythians. The Sauromatians lived near Pokrovka in about 600 BC and were displaced by the Sarmatians around 400 BC. Parallels between Arthurian legend and Ossetian folklore may be due to Sarmatian cavalrymen who served in Britain under the Romans.

History, Russia, Antiquities, Women in war, Arthurian romances, Arthurian legend, Sarmatians

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Mummy matters: a popular study of an age-old obsession

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A discussion on the book, The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead, written by Heather Pringle are presented. The relation between the science and desecration of the dead are discussed.

Criticism and interpretation, Works, Mummies, The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead (Book), Pringle, Heather

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