Warrior princesses of ancient Egypt? Skeletons show women used the weapons buried with them
In the opening scene of the 2001 blockbuster film The Mummy Returns, two women of Egypt’s royal court engage in spectacular hand-to-hand combat. The scene is dramatic rather than historical, but it raises an interesting question: were Egyptian women really trained with weapons, similarly to Viking shieldmaidens? A new study of royal skeletons, published in...


