Posted on 10/14/2005 9:42:13 PM PDT by LauraleeBraswell
The myth of the Amazons, a tribe of bloodthirsty blond women thundering across arid battlefields to the horror of their male foes, has lingered for centuries. Their exploits seized the imagination of the Greek scribes Homer, Hippocrates, and Herodotus. But proof of their existence had always been lacking. Now, a 2,500-year-old mystery may have been solved, cracked by an American scientist whose 10-year odyssey led her tens of thousands of miles in pursuit of the truth. After unearthing a culture of ancient warrior women in the Russian steppes, Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball followed a trail of artifacts to a remote village in Western Mongolia, where her quest for a living link to a long-imagined tribe ended with a startling discovery. There, among the black-eyed Mongols, Davis-Kimball finds a blond child, a 9-year-old girl named Meiramgul. Through DNA testing, Davis-Kimball find that the DNA sequences of the warrior woman and those from the girl of Mongolia are identical.
I have heard that the Amazons were supposed to have lived in the southern Russian region now known as "the Kuban." Also, the golden fleece was said to be from what is now the republic of Georgia.
Yep. You can just tell by looking at her that she's a warrior .
I swear...I was not in Western Mongolia 10 years ago...really.
It is quite fascinating. It is said the Scythians and Sarmatians descended from them.
And of course the myth of Amazon warrior women which turns out to be not really a myth at all.
Unearthed skeletal remains of an Amazon woman were analyzed.
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