Forest fires, poaching, and deforestation are among the key causes of the rapidly dwindling orangutan population in Indonesia. As orangutans become increasingly endangered, primatologists and environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) have worked to protect orangutans …
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In 1947, a number of papyri from Egypt were bequeathed to the Brooklyn Museum of Art by the family of the American Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour. Wilbour had acquired these papyri in Egypt between 1881 and 1896, the year of his death. Among them was pBrooklyn 47.218.49, a p…
The writings attributed to Ahmad ibn Ali al-Buni represent the earliest surviving collection of "Islamic magic"---efforts to influence the world through the manipulation of Islamic symbols. A representative selection of these texts, including Shams al-maarif (al-Buni's most famo…
Descriptions, maps, illustrations and tables of British Columbia's biogeoclimatic zones, as well as an overview of how the biogeoclimatic zone system was developed.
