Archaeologists have found four Amazon women buried in a tomb in western Russia. The women’s broad age range — from 12 years old to 50 years old — gives new insight into the lives that warrior women led. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Adrienne Mayor, the author of “The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World.”
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