Amazon Warrior Women

1 x 60 special; 2004; Produced for National Geographic Channel International,
Thirteen / WNET New York and ZDF (Germany)
Director/Producer: Carsten Oblaender, Jens Afflerbach; Co-Producer: Antje Boehmert

The Amazons—Fact or Fiction? Are the famed warrior women merely a vivid fable, or did they in fact live, vanquishing their enemies with ruthless might, as the legends say? Did these mythic women simply spring from the ancient imaginations of Homer and Herodotus, or are the ancient tales based on fact? Scientists have long ignored the myth of the Amazons, citing the apparent lack of concrete evidence of their existence. Now in Amazon Warrior Women, archaeologist Jeanine Davis-Kimball searches for the truth behind the ancient legends.

Amazon Warrior Women takes viewers on a journey with Davis-Kimball and her Russian colleagues to the remote Russian steppes where ancient nomadic warriors once roamed. Here Davis-Kimball discovers an ancient burial ground and unearths the remains of a female warrior priestess. State-of-the-art genetic tests performed on the remains provide the scientists with evidence of a vanished society and unlock long buried secrets of a lost civilization. Is this society the culture of female warriors and priestesses of great power that the ancient Greeks called the Amazons?

Amazon Warrior Women reveals surprising answers to one of the greatest mysteries of ancient history.

The program received a Silver Omni Award for Fall 2004 and a Certificate of Excellence from the 2005 US International Film and Video Festival.

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