Question
1. (1) Some written and archaeological evidence indicates that the women warriors called Amazons actually existed. (2) In his writings, the Roman historian Herodotus referred to fierce women warriors who swept down from the northeast and attacked Mediterranean settlements. (3) In 1997, on the border of Russia and Kazakhstan, archaeologists discovered fifty burial mounds containing the skeletons of women who were buried with swords, arrowheads, and other weapons. (4) One skeleton showed a deadly weapon-inflicted wound. (5) Several skeletons were bow-legged, suggesting a life on horseback.