If you believe gender equality to be a new creation, you are wrong. It has existed since ancient times, but not everywhere. The Berbers, Hebrews, Ancient Egyptians, Sarmatians. Basques and a few Celtic tribes had it right way before wrong turns took place. Some Scythian-Sarmatian cultures may have given rise to Greek stories of Amazons. Graves of armed females have been found in southern Ukraine and Russia. David Anthony notes, “About 20% of Scythian-Sarmatian ‘warrior graves’ on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a style that may have inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons. The Sarmatians differed from the Scythians in their veneration of the god of fire rather than god of nature, … Continue reading Women’s Rights in Ancient Times