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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Automatic alignment of hieroglyphs and transliteration [PDF]
, 2011 Automatic alignment has important applications in philology, facilitating study of texts on the basis of electronic resources produced by different scholars.
Nederhof, Mark Jan
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Social Relationships in Predynastic Burials [PDF]
, 2009 Of all Ancient Egyptian eras, it has been the Predynastic (primarily the fourth millennium BC) that has received the greatest attention from anthropologically derived models of mortuary behaviour.
Stevenson, AE
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Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.Abstract This paper introduces the collection of five short papers written by scholars from Egypt, Russia, Singapore, China and South Africa that advance this journal's ‘Geography in the World’ initiative through a more robust engagement between geography and area studies.
Han Cheng, Deen Sharp
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Tadeusz Andrzejewski (1923–1961) and His Contribution to Polish Egyptology
Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences)When studying the history of Polish Egyptology, it is difficult to ignore the various references to Tadeusz Andrzejewski (1923–1961), who is, in fact, still a poorly-known scholar.
Kacper Laube
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Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 864-874, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT Over the past century, archaeological investigations at the ancient city of Bubastis (Tell Basta) have revealed a complex urban landscape featuring temples, a palace, and cemeteries. However, the eastern part of the city remains poorly understood.
Philipp Garbe +5 more
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Agendas for Digital Palaeography in an Archaeological Context: Egypt 1800 BC [PDF]
, 2010 Handwriting raises issues alive in archaeological debates, philosophical and historical. In turn, by their extreme fragmentariness, the earliest archaeological manuscripts could generate usefully different questions for the field of palaeography. Here,
Quirke, Stephen
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A Middle and Late Devensian sequence from the northern part of Kents Cavern (Devon, UK)
Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 925-943, August 2025.Abstract 1920s/30s excavation of a Middle Devensian sequence in the northern part of Kents Cavern recovered important Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic archaeological material, including Britain's oldest known Homo sapiens remains. Questions remain about this material, including how it came to be in the cave.
Rob Dinnis +11 more
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The Egyptological afterlife of Colin Campbell [PDF]
, 2012 No abstract ...
Coupar, Sally Anne, McDonald, Angela
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