Yet how many of us know that the Dora Milaje, the film’s all-female warrior tribe, were inspired by a real group of women called the Agoji? My curiosity was piqued on Black Panther – the Dora ...

But her memory lives on in the record as a legendary female pharaoh. Wu Zetian, also known as Wu Zhou, was educated – a rare thing for girls at the time – and cunning. After coming to power ...

One of the most awe-inspiring aspects of the critically-acclaimed Marvel adventure is the fearsome all-female army ... may have been inspired by real-life warrior women. One alert Twitter user ...

But debate over the Birka female Viking warrior grave only deepened an existing divide within the archeological community over Viking women's role in the social hierarchy. We don't yet have ...

Boudica’s husband Prasutagus was the ruler of the Iceni tribe of East Anglia ... as presenter Bridget Kendall puts it, the warrior queen’s undisciplined and ill-equipped men “were no ...