The rectangular silk fragment containing a single medallion shows two perfectly symmetrical strong, fearsome female figures sitting on horseback; arrows drawn, ready to hunt down their prey. Each warrior is single-breasted; this depiction comes from the idea that each female was so dedicated to her craft that she would cut off her right breast in order to have better control over her bow. 

No one knows for certain whether the Amazon women were a figment of Greek imagination, existing as nothing but a myth, or whether they were real women warriors viewed as worthy of battle similar to their male counterparts. In an article posted by National Geographic, Adrienne Mayor, author of The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World works to dispel the myths of these women and prove their existence. The fact is that archeologists have discovered remains of women who were buried with weapons and war injuries matching the description of the ancient Amazons. The graves left behind for these women are the only objective evidence we have to support the idea of their existence. One woman’s remains showed that she was bow-legged from constant riding while others were buried with their weapons of choice. The Scythian women were warriors so that they could be viewed as Amazon’s, and it is most likely this is where the Greek ideology developed.
 

 This discovery was made in the early 1990s by a joint U.S and Russian team of archeologists who discovered over 150 graves while excavating 200-year-old burial grounds outside Pokrovka, a remote Russian outpost in the southern Ural steppes near the Kazakhstan border. These graves belonged to the Sauromatians and their descendants, the Sarmatians. Historians confirm that Pokrovka was not rare with this information and a combination of new archeological finds and a reappraisal of older discoveries. These warrior women not only existed but were masters of their craft, buried with weapons and evident injuries from battle.