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Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World

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A deeply researched and sweeping history that redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the brand new world and examining its significance as of late.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have now been thinking about accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they bring to an end their right breasts to reinforce their archery skills and robotically killed their male children to purify their ranks.

For centuries people believed in their existence and attempted to trace their origins. Artists and poets celebrated their battles and wrote of Amazonia. Spanish explorers, carrying these tales to South The usa, thought they lived in the forests of the world’s greatest river, and named it after them. In the absence of evidence, we ultimately reasoned away their existence, concluding that these powerful, sexually liberated female soldiers will have to have been the fantastical invention of Greek myth and storytelling. Until now.

Following decades of new research and a series of groundbreaking archeological discoveries, we now know these powerful warrior queens did indeed exist. In Searching for the Amazons, John Man travels to the grasslands of Central Asia―from the edge of the ancient Greek world to the borderlands of China―to discover the truth about the truth about these women whose legend has resonated over the centuries.

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