Tomyris (s; from Eastern Iranian: تهمرییش Tahm-Rayiš), also called Thomyris, Tomris, Tomiride, or Queen Tomiri, was an ancient Eastern Iranian queen who reigned over the Massagetae, a Scythian pastoral-nomadic confederation of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, in parts of modern-day Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, western Uzbekistan, and...
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(from the article `dress`) There are several examples of women in antiquity who put on male armour to go to war. Herodotus cites Queen Tomyris of the Massagetai, who led her ...
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