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During the Trojan war wasn't there an amazonian army that fought there. I could swear I saw a show that traced some mongolians with DNA that matched some in an amazonian tomb. I think the story went that some of the amazonian ships accidentaly landed in near monolia and interbred with the locals and to this day you can find blue eyed tall blond mongols. I think I saw it on National geographic on how Dna can be used to track what areas all of your ancestors were from.

The Mongolian Empire of Kublai Khan was the largest in all of human history. So it's quite safe to say that Mongolians at the time also interbred somewhat with foreign people in the lands that they conquered. This means that such very un-Mongolian features can reappear sometimes in offspring. Blue eyed and blond Mongols are extremely rare. The core Mongolian homeland is far from the sea.

Yeah that is what made the show so interesting. It was about maping the genome to find out about human migratory patterns. But IT went on and found an amazonian burial mound they took dna and found out she was from the same part of the world as the amazons and the burial mound was constructed the same as the time period encumpassing the trojan war. Any how the girl they found that was blond and blue eyed was a descendant of the woman in the tomb. Even though the little girl lived hundreds of miles away from the tomb.

There's no doubt that blue eyed and blonde people originally are from the Europe region which the Mongols had invaded. However the "amazon women" is a Greek myth. The "Mongolian" girl with light hair and ethnic european features in the program was related to the Sarmatians which lived in Eurasia. The Sarmatians were partly incorporated into the Mongol horde which conquered those lands. This is why in rare cases descendants with certain typical ethnic european features which are very unMongolian resurface in their offspring.

Here's a article about it.

Obese and ruthless, the pharoah who was King AND Queen of Egypt

The mummified remains of Egypt's first and most powerful female pharaoh have been identified by archaeologists.

They said the discovery was the most important since Howard Carter unearthed Tutankhamun's grave nearly a century ago.
The much more modest resting place of Hatshepsut was also dug up by Carter - but no one suspected her mummy was one of a pair found inside.
The breakthrough came when a tooth known to belong to the queen but found elsewhere was matched to the much larger of the two bodies.
Other evidence confirmed the mummy as that of the ruthless ruler who was famously "both king and queen". Detailed examination showed she was obese with rotten teeth and pendulous breasts.

Zahi Hawass, Egypt's chief archaeologist, said: "This is the most important discovery in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery of King Tutankhamun and one of the greatest adventures of my life.
"Queens, especially the great ones like Nefertiti and Cleopatra, capture our imaginations.
"But it is perhaps Hatshepsut, who was both a king and a queen who was most fascinating.
"Her reign during the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt was a prosperous one, yet mysteriously she was erased from Egyptian history.
"Our hope is that this mummy will help shed light on this mystery and on the mysterious nature of her death."
Born into the most advanced civilisation in the ancient world, Hatshepsut commandeered the throne of Egypt from her young stepson, Thutmosis III, and, in an unprecedented move, declared herself pharaoh.
To cement her position as the first female ruler, she donned the traditional clothes, head-dress and even the false beard traditionally worn by the male ruler of Egypt.
She is thought to have reigned with little opposition for more than two decades before dying in around 1458 BC.
On taking power, Thutmosis attempted to erase all record of her from public monuments and her final resting place remained a mystery until now.
But using their knowledge of royal Egyptian mummification techniques and clues from two known tombs linked to Hatshepsut, Dr Hawass and his team narrowed their search to just four mummies from thousands of unidentified corpses.
The search then came down to two mummies - one fat, one thin - from the tomb discovered by Carter in 1903 - 19 years before he opened the tomb of boy-king Tutankhamun.
One body belonged to Hatshepsut's wet nurse. However, the tooth held in a box bearing the female pharaoh's name has determined that the second, larger body was that of the ruler herself.
The molar, thought to have been set aside during the embalming process and kept in a nearby temple since its discovery in 1881, was almost an exact match to a gap in the monarch's upper jaw.
Yehya Zakariya, an orthodontics professor, said: "The identification of the tooth with the jaw can show this is Hatshepsut.
"A tooth is like a fingerprint. It is 100 per cent definitive."
As a woman living in Egypt's golden age, Hatshepsut was not destined for kingship.
She was prohibited by her gender from ascending the throne even though she was of royal lineage.
Egypt's gods had supposedly decreed that the king's role could never be fulfilled by a woman. And although a pharaoh needed a queen to reign with him, she could never rule alone.
Hatshepsut refused to submit to this and, to get round the rule, claimed she was married to the king of the gods and therefore had as much right to sit on the throne as any previous pharaoh.
Her brazen approach worked. She had herself crowned around 1473BC, changing her name from the female version Hatshepsut - which means Foremost of the Noble Ladies - to the male version, Hatshepsu.
She reinforced her power by decorating the temples of the gods with portraits of herself in the pharaoh's traditional kilt, wearing all his symbols of office including the black pointed royal beard.
While conducting affairs of state surrounded by male courtiers, she may even have worn men's clothes - just as women's libbers have done in modern times.
Yet judging by other statues of her that have survived, at times she could be all woman.
She had a distinct preference for tight-fitting gowns which showed off her figure and a habit of bedding her cabinet ministers.
Hatshepsut was the first but not the only woman ruler of maledominated ancient Egypt.
Nefertiti followed her and then Cleopatra took power 1,500 years later. Neither, however, took the title pharaoh like Hatshepsut.
She showed ruthless ambition and exceptional tenacity for the times in which she lived.
As a result this mysterious and courageous female ruler rewrote the early story of her country and has been called the first great woman in history.
Hatshepsut insisted she had been made official heir to the throne by her father, the pharaoh Thutmosis I.
The pharaoh had several sons who predeceased him and turned to his daughter to safeguard the throne.
What immediately followed was not unusual. Hatshepsut married a much younger half-brother, also called Thutmosis, whereupon she became queen.
Marriages between siblings were the custom in those days and at first the couple reigned together.
But then her brother/husband died, with the markings on his mummy suggesting he suffered from a hideous skin disease.
Hatshepsut became regent for another Thutmosis, her husband's son by a harem girl.
By now she was was not content simply to be regent. Within two years she had taken all the power for herself and was running the country from its capital Thebes, donned in her false beard and all the traditional regalia of kingship.
For many years she and her stepson seemed to have lived happily with this arrangement.
She ruled while Thutmosis concentrated on his military career. So successful was he that historians know him as the Napoleon of Egypt.
He is recorded as having taken massive numbers of prisoners, horses and spoil from the lands he attacked.
Historians suspect these cambonepaigns were an excuse to escape from the influence of his merciless step-mother.
She was becoming so powercrazed in her last years that Thutmosis even feared for his life.
In his absence, Hatshepsut built breathtaking temples in her own honour. They were decorated with reliefs telling how she came to the throne of Egypt and with farfetched stories about her divine connections.
Hatshepsut ruled as a master politician and stateswoman for 20 years, outliving all her male ministers and, it seems, putting on weight.
She died around the age of 50 of cancer, according to Dr Hawass's research.
She expected to be buried in her finest and best known temple near the Valley of the Kings.
Reminiscent of Third Reich architecture and a forerunner of the Parthenon, it is one of the most famous tourist destinations in the world.
But with her death, Thutmosis III finally come into his own, getting his own back on the woman who had usurped his throne.
He outlived Hatshepsut by 40 years and seems to have set out on a campaign to erase her name from history.
Was he jealous, was he threatened by her memory? For whatever motive, he erased many of her images.
He threw her statues into the quarries in front of the grand temples she built and even defaced the images of her courtiers.
By the time Carter came on the scene at the beginning of the 20th century her body had been removed from the tomb she had been destined to occupy.
The only bodies that seemed to correspond with the royal remains were two mysterious elderly women in a much more modest tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Was her body removed from the tomb to foil grave robbers or even to save it from mutilation by her stepson? Did he have it disinterred and condemned to anonymity?
These mysteries remain. But the broken tooth preserved in a box inscribed with Hatshepsut's name has at last revealed her identity.

Damn she sounded crazy. I love Egyptology it is very fascinating how they did things and how pharoahs and rulers of other regions were masters of the snow job. Getting people to beleive they were living gods or appointed by God to be a ruler so you'd better listen and not challenge him because God was more on his or her side than the commoners.

this is really draggin the bottom of the barrel...
if you did 'evil male rulers' it would be a hundred page scroller...
like the 'women who do crimes' or whatever thread it is.... just read the paper and its pretty much men who are killing, raping, robbing, women are the exceptions. (read down further before having a hissy fit).

I think that it is a case of 'be careful you don't become what you hate'.

Femnism/equal rights are all good and well, but like most things the balance gets swung the wrong way.
I remember a few years ago a company tried to open a new gym for guys only. They were not allowed on grounds of discrimation. All female gyms are common. That is the trouble, the balance is not there. Why can't guys have an all male gym when women can? Beats me... its unfair and stupid and men are not getting a fair deal.
Its not nice, its not any bloody nicer than when women didn't get a fair deal.

I don't want to make a list of terrible male rulers... men are fine and i don't need ammunition to make out 'men are bad' when there are lots of decent men there (all the nice guys don't make the news).
Men spent a long time thru history being the protectors, hunters, risking their lives hunting for food and fending off aggressors. Men are naturally more aggressive and brave and sometimes this goes off on the wrong track (hence higher crime rates).

You don't have to put down the other person (people) to prove you are good... extoll your own virtues without picking out horrible women. By picking out evil women it is like you're picking the worst to look good... Men are good and don't have to compare themselves to the lowest gutter of females to look good and be respected.
Its like a woman saying "look at hitler... aren't we great"... gods sake, anyone looks great compared to hitler...

Men and women are different and I am glad to have a man who is naturally brave and can be aggressive (yes... when a woman hears a strange noise during the night its the man who will get up and check it out).

Anyway, just think about it.... don't become what you hate.

Now back to the kitchen with me.

oh, and ps.... when i read i feel like i'm reading the posts of a bunch of disgruntled bitchin women.... come on guys you're GREAT... you don't need to prove it to anyone ... theres not this much whining, aren't we hard done by on the menopause forum.

This thread doesn't tell me anything I don't already know about the tyrannical Jezebels in history!

Women aren't exceptional in comparison to men.

It's not that women don't kill, rape, and rob it's just that when they do it isn't made public news as often. Plus, men are more direct in their approach than women are.

Women will poison a man, for instance, so it's murder over a period of time.

Women will rape boys that are too young to know what's going on.

As far as robbing goes... just look at divorce cases, child custody cases, etc.

@Pixie....I feel like you missed the point. A little list what has been said about men:

- Without men there wouldn´t be any wars
- Men caused the credit crunch
- All men are rapists
- Men caused global warming
etc.

The point of that article is to show, that when women are in a position of power they are as bad (or good) as men. Nothing more nothing less...

Thanks Feckless.... the penny drops..
I see the point now and have of course heard the 'men cause wars' etc and the point is that women in power etc can be just as awful, its not something i had thought of and the fact it hasn't even occured to me gives me insight on why this site is here.