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Beyond Skin and Eyes: The Medical and Social Burden of Oculocutaneous Albinism in Africa: A Narrative Review

open access: yesJEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is a genetic disorder found worldwide, but its impact is particularly pronounced in the African continent. This results from both a higher prevalence and the persistent myths and superstitions surrounding the condition in many African communities.
Rebecca Donadoni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

STUDY OF COLORIST CULTURE OF ANCIENT OF EGYPT BY PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ANNOTATIONS

open access: yesОсвітній вимір, 2008
In the article «Study of color istical culture of Ancient Egypt of pupils at secondary school» gives her point of view about the substantial aspects of use the interesting facts about the coloristical culture of Ancient Egypt on the lessons offine art ...
O.Yu. Nifatova
doaj   +1 more source

Wer hat den ersten emblematischen Stein zum Rollen gebracht? Eine quellengeschichtliche Untersuchung zur Entstehung der literarischen Emblematik.

open access: yesTranscultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023
This source history article deals with the emergence and flourishing of emblematic literature in 16th and 17th century in Europe. The emblem is a literary form consisting of a trio: the image (icon), the motto, and an evocative explaining text that ...
Diaa Elnaggar
doaj   +1 more source

Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Medicine in Ancient – Egypt

open access: yesHealth Promotion & Physical Activity, 2019
The history of ancient Egypt covers three millennia before the birth of the Christ. Information about medicine in that country, mainly found in papyrus, prove the occurrence of diseases known today and magic-rational therapy used by Egyptian physicians -
Jerzy Supady
doaj   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Images of Ancient Egypt in unpublished memoirs of Russian women (female) travelers at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries

open access: yesВестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология
The article examines the peculiarities of the historical perception of Ancient Egypt by Russian women travelers. The author analyzes unpublished sources from the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive, Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts,
V. V. Vasilik, D. A. Kharina
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

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