Bronze-Age Era Women in Europe Held Positions of Power, Finds Study

In today’s world where slogans like women empowerment and future is female are omnipresent, it might come as a revelation for some that the past was already ruled by women. In recent research published this week in the Antiquity journal, an international team of scientists have speculated that a woman buried nearly 4,000 years ago in what is modern-day Spain was a ruler of surrounding lands who may have commanded the state. The unique crown called diadem found at the gravesite matched with six other diadems found on wealthy women in Argaric graves. These findings indicate that women held positions of power during the ancient Bronze age debunking the myth that it was always a male-dominated society. But this burial at La Amoloya questions the role of women in Bronze Age politics and it questions a lot of conventional wisdom at large.