A Brief History of The Amazons

For centuries Scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality.

North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron-Age women buried with arrows, swords, and armour. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazon's so called ancient capital of Themiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful pristesses, women-only religious cults and an armed bisexual Goddess.

Combining schorlarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Lyn has produced a coherent and absorbing book that challenges preconceived notions, still distrubingly widespread, of what men and women can do.