Marija Gimbutas

Marie Curie Dr Irena Kuzmina “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” Mary Wollstonecraft One Polish woman revolutionised not only the Sorbonne University but also global science, as well as ordinary people's lives. We all undergo X-ray screening when our health state gets critical but not everybody knows who invented it and what the context was. Let us look into it. In Poland, on the outskirts of the then Russian Empire, in th

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Born in 1921, the young Gimbutas travelled across Lithuania collecting traditional songs and folklore, which became the basis to her in-depth studies: linguistics, archeology, ethnology. Finally, she created a new science and research area of her own: “archeomythology” (1), (4). At home and abroad, she turned into one of the most prominent and outstanding but also controversial female researchers of the 20th century in the Western world. The WW2 forced her to emigrate: in 194