Female warriors were just proven historically accurate.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-egyptian-princesses-were-powerful-weapon-users-new-analysis-suggests/
>>18585447Remember - Cleopatra was an African-American Female. Anybody who claims her to have been a Greek incest baby is lying to you in an attempt to discredit African-American Black Nationalism.
oh yeah, they were contracting dysentery on long marches carrying 100 lbs of gear and contending with 200 lb guys in melee just like a netflix special
Big if true
>Important woman carried daggers to protect themselves from being raped by random nigger retards>Erm acshully chuddy this proves that wahem in ancient society were powerful warriors and they had full equality with men
>>18585447That dagger still looks beautiful for be 4000 years old
>>18585452Power of schizo and jew-like?
>>18585585These scholars also have a bad habit of making generalizations based on historical women of elite classes. Individual women of elite classes might have been ridiculously privileged and had wide personal freedoms because the elite men personally liked her and allowed her to do anything she wanted. It has nothing to do with how 99.9% of women of the same culture lived.
>>18585623They make a career out of that shit... a couple of narratives and eventually they jump from """historian""" to public figure who has a truth hidden in history, which she will reveal to you... in a book or a movie.Academia is not about knowledge but rather just another space to gain pseudo importance and a position of privilege. Even if it means bending the truth or making up narratives.
>>18585623>>18585626Isn't Egypt an example of a society where elite women had less rights and freedom than women in general?
>>18585640Even Hatsepsut had to portray herself as a male pharaoh.
>>18585640The greek stereotype was that egyptian women acted like men and egyptian men acted like women. Women could buy and inherit property and represent themselves in court, and have jobs. Egyptian women were probably better off than greek ones.As for the OP, skeletal evidence suggesting that princesses had an active lifestyle isn't necessarily proof they were trained as fish speakers or something. Archery can be a sporting pastime rather than a martial one, and self defence wounds on the bones of people who actually engaged in armed combat are usually pretty obvious, and the article doesn't entirely any of those. The evidence that they were active is there, but physical performance like acrobatics and dancing were considered respectable pursuits and sport hunting or target shooting are more likely explanations of the evidence than warrior women, but "young women engage in class appropriate physical activities" probably doesn't get you many clicks.
That's just a ritual dagger, probably used in the Opening of the Mouth funeral rite.It means absolutely nothing in temporal context, and nobody should be surprised to see a someone important carry one into the afterlife.It's a symbol of royal power, that you could point into the cardinal directions as a way of establishing their spiritual dominion.
>>18585783>Egyptian women were probably better off than greek ones.There are very few places on Earth worse for people not having been born with balls than Ancient/Classical Greece and Mesopotamia.Egyptian women were definitely better off than anyone in Greece or Persia. The issue is the bar is so low it really doesn't say all that much in comparison to modern standards.
>>18585816Ancient Greece (mostly Athens) won the "culture war" and has convinced people it was more important geopolitically than it really was during its time. It was never a regional powerhouse. Persian Empire was significantly richer than Greece. Egypt was richer than Greece. China was richer than Greece. I think Sparta was probably the only city state where women were treated well relatively speaking.
>>18585783>Women could buy and inherit property and represent themselves in court, and have jobs. Egyptian women were probably better off than greek ones.Sources?
Seriously, could someone with comprehensive knowledge verify how truthful this is? The text seems clearly sensationalist and biased, and what if this is only for aesthetic and perhaps even ritualistic reasons? Those Cretan axes with seals and statuettes of women using them were also purely for non-warlike reasons.
>>18585862>>18585816You must have some basis for these claims
>>18585898They waited until the very end to ask an Egyptologist. >All six mummies shared a rare cluster of inherited spinal defects, indicating they were related. The team hopes to carry out DNA studies in the future. But the researchers also saw clear evidence of “robust” muscle attachments — where connective tissue once joined the muscle and the bone — and some telling skeletal developments. For instance, enlarged areas of the forearm bones indicated that Itaweret had often drawn bows.>Some of the women had healed from traumatic injuries, possibly sustained while training, hunting or in battle. “These princesses were not leading sedentary lives of luxury,” Hashesh says. “They were well-conditioned athletes whose bodies were hardened by the same skilled force and disciplined movement as the men of their time.”>Egyptologist Nicholas Brown, who was not involved in the study, says Egyptian princesses used bows in the royal ritual of shooting arrows in the four cardinal directions — north, east, south and west — during the Sed festival of renewal. However, the evidence for the princesses’ use of weapons is indirect, says Brown, of the University of Iowa in Iowa City. “The bones aren’t preserving the behavior directly, but the muscle attachments are clearly indicating some kind of habitual, repeated activity.”
>>18586107>They were well-conditioned athletes whose bodies were hardened by the same skilled force and disciplined movement as the men of their time.
>>18586107See>>18585784
You shouldn't be surprised to see Egyptian princesses riding in chariots or hunting from them using bows.That doesn't mean they were personally going into battle with them.Pretty much that's all this really is.We already knew about Egyptian art depicting women in chariots.This isn't news to anyone, it's well known that elite women engaged in hunts in medieval Europe too. Not dangerous boar hunts or anything, but they would be taking small game.Standard girl boss strong woman me too anything you can do I can do better type article that isn't really saying anything we didn't know already.Plenty of other cultures have women engaging in recreational archery, like Persia.
>>18586230>You shouldn't be surprised to see Egyptian princesses riding in chariots or hunting from them using bowsYes, we should because it wasn't any norm. it was ritualistic
>>18586230>it's well known that elite women engaged in hunts in medieval Europe Why are you lying? Hunting is a and was considered a masculine occupation not feminine. These elite women used extremely weak bows and certainly weren't archers in the strictest sense.
>>18586528>>18586522You're an idiot.Anyone can look up noble women participating in hunts.
I mean is it really surprising that an ancient egyptian king may have said "I think if women are physically active they'll be more likely to have healthy children. Have one of my men at arms start training the harem women to shoot and spar."
>we found an ornate weapon in a grave>this means the person personally carried it in battle and 360 quickscoped hundreds of opponents at once with it numerous timesnormies are so stupid that I genuinely cant account for it in my overview of the world and human society. I cant cope with religion, philosophy, etc., knowing just how cattle-like they are.
>>18585623>>18585585>>18585898>>18586107>>18587554Read the original research paper instead of popsci slop articles, 99% of the time you see overly-extrapolative nonsense it's shit that the popsci journalists added and wasn't in the original publication
Philostratus says thet the Scythian women went to war alongside the men, but that they kind of sucked and ate shit when facing even young inexperienced warriors.
