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Show NOT A MERE POETIC MYTH Abundant Proof of the Existence of Woman Warriors Known as Amazons. For a long time it was held that the story of the Amazons, the valiant race of woman warriors, so great a favorite with the Greek and other people of antiquity, was mere poetic myth, but within recent years archeological researches have indicated that there were indeed woman fighters of high rank in those remote days. A couple of years ago there was mi-earthed mi-earthed a sepulcher in that part of Italy known as Etruria, in which was discovered a war chariot of bronzy and iron, wherein was crouched th skeleton of a woman. About M skeleton were the remains of f-robes f-robes and ornaments of gold and vi . such as, in the old traditionsJ.e Amazons wore in battle. The bronze work and the terra cotta vases fixed the date of the tomb as about S00 B. C. The first stories of the Amazons assigned as-signed them to the northeastern part of Asia Minor, but Etruria was peopled from Asia Minor and had attained at-tained a high degree of sJll in certain of the arts long befor Rome was founded. Such evidenceis this tomb affords is, in the opinion of more than one authority, more convincing than the pictures of Amazons on the old vases, or such legends as that of Queen Penthesila, who was said to have led 5,000 woman fighters to the aid Jt Priam during the Trojan war. |
