afroedge.com A new discovery highlights ancient women taking the lead role in society. Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed a massive royal tomb with treasures and mummified women from about 1,200 years ago as well as human sacrifices.
It is the first intact royal tomb of its kind.
It is the first intact royal tomb of its kind.
 s1.zetaboards.com The team spent months secretly digging through the burial chambers amid fears that grave robbers would find out and loot the site. The contents of the chamber consisted of 63 human bodies, most of them women, wrapped in funerary bundles buried in the typical seated position. Three Wari queens were buried with gold and silver jewellery and brilliantly-painted ceramics. |  www.abovetopsecret.com The discovery north of Lima could shed new light on the Wari empire, which ruled in the Andes before the rise of the better-known Inca civilisation. The Wari civilization thrived from the 7th to 10th centuries AD, conquering all of what is now Peru before a mysterious and dramatic decline. The capital lay near the modern-day Ayacucho, in the Andes. |
The fact that very rich grave goods lay alongside the female skeletons, leads archaeologists to believe that this was a tomb of the royal elite. The women in the Wari culture must have been of the highest rank.
There's a theory that much of women's role in the past has been repressed. Some people claim there was a Golden Age in prehistory where the matriarchy ruled, but no evidence has been found to prove or disprove this. However, misogyny rules to this day in many cultures.
The ritual denunciation of women constitutes something on the order of a cultural constant, reaching back to the Old Testament as well as to Ancient Greece and extending through the fifteenth century.
Documents of all the ancient cultures (Greek, Roman, Mosaic, Hebrew, Celtic, Germanic, Assyrian, Christian, Babylonian) depict women as already subordinated to men socially and legally.
Ancient women warriors who led their troops into battle: Amazons, Queen Artemisia, Queen Boudicca, Queen Samsi, Queen Tomyris, Trung Sisters, ...
Great women rulers:
Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt, 15th century B.C. Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, 14th Century B.C.
Sammuramat, Assyrian Queen, 9th Century B.C. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, 69-30 B.C.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England and of France, 1122-1202. Joan of Arc, Leader of the French Army, 1412-1431
Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain, 1451-150. Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, 1519-1589 and so on.
Little is known about the family or tribal structure of ancient mankind. I believe women were once strong and powerful before recorded history. They sat by a fire in their nice warm cave and sent the men out to hunt. This allowed them to chat amongst themselves while they nursed the children, thereby developing the ability to multi-task, while men had to focus on one thing—to find food.
There's a theory that much of women's role in the past has been repressed. Some people claim there was a Golden Age in prehistory where the matriarchy ruled, but no evidence has been found to prove or disprove this. However, misogyny rules to this day in many cultures.
The ritual denunciation of women constitutes something on the order of a cultural constant, reaching back to the Old Testament as well as to Ancient Greece and extending through the fifteenth century.
Documents of all the ancient cultures (Greek, Roman, Mosaic, Hebrew, Celtic, Germanic, Assyrian, Christian, Babylonian) depict women as already subordinated to men socially and legally.
Ancient women warriors who led their troops into battle: Amazons, Queen Artemisia, Queen Boudicca, Queen Samsi, Queen Tomyris, Trung Sisters, ...
Great women rulers:
Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt, 15th century B.C. Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, 14th Century B.C.
Sammuramat, Assyrian Queen, 9th Century B.C. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, 69-30 B.C.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England and of France, 1122-1202. Joan of Arc, Leader of the French Army, 1412-1431
Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain, 1451-150. Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, 1519-1589 and so on.
Little is known about the family or tribal structure of ancient mankind. I believe women were once strong and powerful before recorded history. They sat by a fire in their nice warm cave and sent the men out to hunt. This allowed them to chat amongst themselves while they nursed the children, thereby developing the ability to multi-task, while men had to focus on one thing—to find food.
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