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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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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Settlement Area of Ancient Bubastis (Tell Basta), Southeastern Nile Delta (Egypt)

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, Amr Abd El‐Raouf, Martin Behl, Ashraf Es‐Senussi, Eva Lange‐Athinodorou, Julia Meister   +5 more
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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, John Boulton, Barry Chandler, Jesse Davies, Jennifer C. French, Thomas Higham, Louisa Jáuregui, Mark Lewis, Matthias Meyer, Danielle Schreve, Chris Stringer, Chris Proctor   +11 more
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Eugenic appropriations of the goddess Isis: Reproduction and racial superiority in theosophical feminist writings

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 2, Page 170-183, April 2025.
Abstract The goddess Isis continues to be an influential figure for the notion of the Divine Feminine in contemporary esoteric and popular thought. However, looking back into the history of modern esotericism, the image of the goddess Isis has been used by Theosophists such as Florence Farr and Frances Swiney to argue for their feminist and more ...
Jessica A. Albrecht
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German Egyptology (1882-1914) [PDF]

, 2020
The period from 1882 to 1914 has been termed the “Golden Age” of Egyptology. Under Adolf Erman, the successor of Carl Richard Lepsius, one of Egyptology’s “founding fathers,” who had died in 1884, Egyptology experienced the inauguration of the Ancient ...
Voss, Susanne, Gertzen, Thomas
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Rudolf Dvořák (1860–1920) – patron vzniku české egyptologie [PDF]

Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2020
Rudolf Dvořák (1860–1920), the first professor of oriental languages at the Faculty of Arts of the Czech Carlo-Ferdinand University in Prague, showed a certain interest in Egyptology as well.
Ladislav Bareš
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On two arguments for fanaticism

Noûs, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 565-595, September 2024.
Abstract Should we make significant sacrifices to ever‐so‐slightly lower the chance of extremely bad outcomes, or to ever‐so‐slightly raise the chance of extremely good outcomes? Fanaticism says yes: for every bad outcome, there is a tiny chance of extreme disaster that is even worse, and for every good outcome, there is a tiny chance of an enormous ...
Jeffrey Sanford Russell
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From hunter‐gatherers to food producers: New dental insights into the Nile Valley population history (Late Paleolithic–Neolithic)

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 184, Issue 4, August 2024.
Abstract Objectives This study presents biological affinities between the last hunter‐fisher‐gatherers and first food‐producing societies from the Nile Valley. We investigate odontometric and dental tissue proportion changes between these populations from the Middle Nile Valley and acknowledge the biological processes behind them.
Nicolas Martin, Adrien Thibeault, Lenka Varadzinová, Stanley H. Ambrose, Daniel Antoine, Petra Brukner Havelková, Matthieu Honegger, Joel D. Irish, Piotr Osypiński, Donatella Usai, Nicolas Vanderesse, Ladislav Varadzin, Rebecca J. Whiting, Petr Velemínský, Isabelle Crevecoeur   +14 more
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Histories of Egyptology : interdisciplinary measures

, 2015
First published in 2014, but (c) 2015.Histories of Egyptology are increasingly of interest: to Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, and others.

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Challenges posed by hijacked journals in Scopus

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 395-422, April 2024.
Abstract This study presents and explains the phenomenon of indexjacking, which involves the systematic infiltration of hijacked journals into international indexing databases, with Scopus being one of the most infiltrated among these databases. Through an analysis of known lists of hijacked journals, the study identified at least 67 hijacked journals ...
Anna Abalkina
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