{"product_id":"the-scythian-queens-sheri-thomas-9798235604438","title":"The Scythian Queens","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeneath the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe, archaeologists found graves filled with arrows, swords, horse gear, gold, mirrors, and the bones of the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor generations, many of those graves were read through one assumption: weapons meant men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the evidence changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOsteology, ancient DNA, and the re-examination of burial sites from the Black Sea to the southern Urals revealed something extraordinary. A significant number of these armed burials belonged to women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Scythian Queens\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the world of the warrior women of the ancient steppe: the Scythians, Sauromatians, Sarmatians, and related nomadic cultures whose lives unsettled older ideas about gender, power, warfare, and identity in the ancient world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about grasslands, horses, burial mounds, Greek myths, Amazon legends, archaeological mistakes, and the slow correction of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside this book, you will discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe world of the Eurasian steppe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vast landscape of horses, migration, herding, raiding, trade, survival, and distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe people the Greeks called Scythians\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNomadic and semi-nomadic societies whose wealth, mobility, goldwork, weapons, and burial customs fascinated the ancient world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Amazon connection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow Greek stories about warrior women may have been shaped by real encounters with armed women from the Black Sea and steppe regions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe burial mounds that changed archaeology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe kurgans where women were found buried with arrows, blades, horse equipment, elite goods, and signs of status.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe evidence behind the warrior women\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat skeletons, grave goods, trauma, DNA, and modern archaeological methods reveal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe danger of easy answers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy every armed woman was not necessarily a battlefield queen, but why the old assumption that women could not be warriors no longer holds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Scythian Queens\u003c\/strong\u003e does not turn myth into fact, and it does not reduce complex evidence into simple slogans. It follows the graves, the bones, the ancient texts, and the scholarship with care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of ancient history, archaeology, women's history, mythology, classical studies, and lost civilizations, this book offers a deep, accessible journey into one of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of the modern age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe women were never missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey were waiting beneath the grass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sheri Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235604438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Bell Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Sheri Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852971847935,"sku":"9798235604438","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-scythian-queens-sheri-thomas-9798235604438","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}