My late father's distant ancestors did live in Mongolian yurts. My mother used to call her love, my father, "Her handsome Mongolian."

I love the fact that women warriors were not a myth. Read more of Jeannine Davis-Kimball's excavations and her 'search for hidden heroines.' A mounted (on horse) amazon in Scythian costume on a vase, or the female gladiators Amazonia and Achillea in stone scupture (below), or the frieze of Amazons and Greeks at Thessaloniki makes me wish for another time and place. Or at best...some reruns of Xena.