Remains Of Warrior Buried 2,600 Years Ago Identified As A 12-Year-Old Girl

[Judi Lynn]

By Natasha Ishak
Published June 26, 2024

The young fighter was originally misidentified as male after she was first excavated in 1988. Now, modern scientific techniques have revealed her true identity as an Amazon warrior.

In 1988, a team of scientists led by Marina Kilunovskaya and Vladimir Semyonov came across the partially mummified remains of a young warrior buried in what is now the modern-day Tuva Republic in Russia.

The mummified corpse — so well-preserved in its tomb that a wart was still visible on its face — was thought to be a teenage boy who was skilled in combat.

Now, 32 years later, with the help of new technology researchers discovered that the young warrior was female — and possibly one of the famed Amazon women warriors of Greek literature.

As The Siberian Times reports, Kilunovskaya and her team had estimated the adolescent fighter’s remains to date back to sometime in the early 6th century BCE, roughly 2,600 years ago. Inside the burial, researchers found a number of items typically reserved for honored warriors.

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[jaxexpat]

1. Makes sense to me. Scythia was the middle leg of the ancient "silk road".

My Speculation:

Men in this region were associated with trade and gone from home for years at a time. When a growing season was ruined by drought, a common occurrence in this arid land, women had to do something to make ends meet. They probably indulged in some marauding of other tribes or, more likely, traders. Pretty soon they got so good at it the city states would pay them off to protect trade, their life blood, and when needed use them as warriors to dominate competing city states. A reputation that spread, probably intentionally, from China to Rome (or at least Persia/Greece).

[Timeflyer]

2. Fascinating. Wonder Woman lives.

[UpInArms]

3. I am glad that she is finally acknowledged