Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

The west-African kingdom of Dahomey, meanwhile, was known for its core of 5,000 fierce women warriors whom the British colonialists called Amazons. The true Amazons of Greek myth, who Hesgeth assumed ...