Three generations of ancient women warriors were recently uncovered in a Russian tomb. Buried with dozens of weapons, including knives and an iron hook in the shape of a bird, they date back to the ...

Hawkman was introduced very early in DC Comics as one of the earliest members of the Justice Society. While he hasn’t become ...

TOTTORI—The face of a Japanese woman who lived around 1,800 years ago and wouldn't look out of place today has been re-created in a stunning visualization. A bust of the long-deceased woman ...

Renamed by the Romans he was first a demi-god called Heracles, created by the Ancient ... warrior-like women are the inspiration behind the DC Comics’ hero of page and screen, Wonder Woman.

Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking warrior ideal that dominates today's modern reimaginings of this ancient history ... Then an armor-clad woman on horseback storms ...

The Paley Center for Media will honor actress, singer, and philanthropist Lynda Carter, on the fiftieth anniversary of her ...

King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard ... Chief among these is Mary Magdalene, a woman infamous in Western Christianity as an adulteress ...

The bones of a man aged 50 or older were unearthed there. Nuclear DNA was sampled from the ancient woman’s teeth for comparison with the man’s remains. The study found that 96 to 97 percent of ...

Commonly depicted as a fierce and powerful woman mounted on a chariot ... as presenter Bridget Kendall puts it, the warrior queen’s undisciplined and ill-equipped men “were no match for ...