The story of Mulan, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to fight for China's emperor, has become one of best known and most beloved narratives worldwide, thanks in no small part to Disney ...

The idea of a woman who considers no man worthy of her and sets strict conditions for suitors has led to various more or less famous creative works. ... The Story of Khutulun, the Mongolian Female ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of what appear to be two 1,500-year-old warrior women in northern Mongolia, near the Chinese—the kind of fighters that may have inspired the story of ...

Lee has worked in China and Mongolia for the past 16 years. She discovered the remains of the two women warriors during an excavation of a cemetery at the Airagiin Gozgor archaeological site, in ...

Lee now plans to look for skeletal evidence of female warriors in more Mongolian tombs dating to as early as around 2,200 years ago. “Badass women may go back a long way in northern Asian ...

Researchers Uncover New Evidence That Warrior Women Inspired Legend of Mulan Nearly 2,000 years ago, women who rode horseback and practiced archery may have roamed the steppes of Mongolia ...

AN Amazon woman warrior from the 14th century has been unearthed in Mongolia next to the grave of her “trophy bride”. The contrasting medieval females – the fearsome 5ft 10 fighter capable of… ...

Two women — one about 50 years old and the other about 20 — who were buried in Mongolia during the Xianbei period (A.D. 147 to 552) possibly inspired the famed "Ballad of Mulan," about a girl ...

To uncover the genetic link between nine-year-old Meiramgul, the blond child of the mountains of western Mongolia, and the long-dead women warriors of the Eurasian steppes, researchers examined ...

Ancient remains found in the Mongolian steppe suggest that the story of the female warrior Mulan may have been inspired by real Xianbei women who rode horseback and probably also used bows and arrows.