Queens

Move aside Taylor Swift. In the 17th century, these songs were the pop music anthems of their day.

Her legacy is being restored, thanks to runestone forensics.

The spectacle in St. Petersburg, Russia, was the site of an incredibly strange wedding.

The “she generalissimo” nearly won the English Civil War for her husband, King Charles I.

Cruel joke, power move, or both?

From musket-wielding empress Nur Jahan to writer Gulbadan Begum, meet the influential women of the early-modern Muslim empire.

From fighting in the army to managing the kingdom, women were key players in every aspect of the Mongol Empire.

From California’s mythic warrior queen to the swole women of Sparta to female hunters in ancient Peru.

And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.

Science and historical research say….maybe.

A new book tells the tales of the queens of Jerusalem.

She trained a regiment of women and led armies—with a baby in tow.