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Author & Timestamp: Dalya Alberge Sun 24 Mar 2024, 07.00 GMT Extract:

In Greek legends, the Amazons were feared and formidable women warriors who lived on the edge of the known world. Hercules had to obtain the magic girdle of the Amazonian queen Hippolyte in one of his 12 labours, and Achilles killed another queen, Penthesilea, only to fall in love with her as her beautiful face emerged from her helmet.

[...] archaeologists are discovering increasing evidence [suggesting that Amazonian women] did exist.

Excavations of graves within a bronze age necropolis in Nakhchivan in Azerbaijan revealed that women had been buried with weapons such as razor-sharp arrowheads, a bronze dagger and a mace, as well as jewellery.

Archaeologists have concluded that they could have been Amazon women who lived 4,000 years ago. These fearsome women were famed for their male-free society and their prowess on the battlefield, particularly with a bow and arrow.

Historian Bettany Hughes told the Observer: “It shows that there’s truth behind the myths and legends of ancient Greece.”

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Some of the skeletons reveal that the women had used bows and arrows extensively, Hughes observed: “Their fingers are warped because they’re using arrows so much. Changes on the finger joints wouldn’t just happen from hunting. That is some sustained, big practice. [There is also] bone evidence [...] of sustained time in the saddle. Women’s pelvises [...] opened up because they’re riding horses. [Their] bones are just shaped by their lifestyle.”

Penthesilea, an Amazon queen, and Achilles fight to the death.  Photograph: Ivy Close Images/Alamy

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Glasgow Necropolis, October 1st, 2013.

In my last few days in Scotland I finally made it to the Necropolis. Maybe because I was located in the West End I always thought this was too far away. Totally not. Walking distance from St. Enochs really. Again, you expereince a completely different side of Glasgow by delving into this side of the city. It is really cool to see because this is the height of Glasgow and the merchants, since many of the tombs seem to be for merchants families. Its exciting to see how rich the city once was and that this is what remains of the time period. I think Glasgow is amazing and has a slight bad reputation on an awesome city. Today city center and the West end thrive but it is great to see the remnants of the merchants. 

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