Replica shows visage of 16 year old fighter buried with her weapons and horses.
Is this the face of an ancient Amazon female warrior?
Her remains – unearthed in the Altai Mountains – suggest likenesses to the fabled all-female virgin Amazon warriors of known to the Greeks. Entombed next to a much older man, she lay beside shields, battle axes, bows and arrowheads, while her physique indicated she had once been a skilled horse rider and archer.
In a singular honour, nine horses – four of them bridled – were buried with her, escorting her to the afterlife.
