Ancient Egyptian Princesses Were Skilled Archers, Bone Study Reveals

In the basement of the Egyptian Museum, six royal mummies rediscovered in 2020 after nearly a century of obscurity have quietly rewritten what we thought we knew about women in the ancient world. Skeletal analysis of four princesses from the Middle Kingdom — daughters of Pharaoh Amenemhat II — reveals not ceremonial posturing but the physical testimony of lives spent in rigorous training: bones shaped by bowstrings, fractures healed by skilled physicians, muscle attachments forged through years of archery and hunting. The weapons buried with these women were not symbols of status placed there