Recent articles with significant references to the discoveries of the Bents

The expeditions
Map showing the expeditions of Theodore & Mabel Bent, 1883-1897 (drawn by Glyn Griffiths © Bent Archive)

2025: In-Between Spaces and Temporal Frameworks: The Sabbatian Ma’aminim in the Late Ottoman Era, by H. Feldman Samet, in Jewish History (published online: 29 August 2025; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10835-025-09477-5) [retrieved 2 September 2025]. In which the author refers at some length to Bent’s ‘A Peculiar People’. Longman’s Magazine, Vol. 11 (61) (Nov), 24-36. [Reprinted in Littell’s Living Age, Vol. 175 (1887), 682ff] [The Dünmehs of Salonika].

2025:‘Ya Mabel’ and the Duchess: A Victorian but Modern, Female Traveller and a Modern but Victorian, Female Traveller in Southern Oman”, by Dr Marielle Risse. An article for The Bent Archive website, August 2025

2024: Asil Yaman, Koray Konuk, Anna Sitz, İlayda Alikaya, Münire Rumeysa Çakan, et al. Preliminary Report on the 2023 Fieldwork at Phoenix and Casara. Anatolia antiqua = Eski anadolu, 2024, XXXII. ffhal-04844926f.

2024: Andrew Jeffrey (no date), “The 1888 visits of the Bents to the Carian Chersonese and the Kasara inscriptions” (published online via Academia).

2024:When is a Menorah a ‘Menorah’? Text and Realia from Asia Minor“, by Mark Wilson, in IMAGES (October 2024, not open access), referencing Bent’s “… pioneering research […] Theodore Bent called attention to the importance of symbols at sites in Rough Cilicia. He illustrates nineteen symbols found on fortresses and lintels around Olba that he found during his travels [1888-90].”

2024:The Bents’ archaeological expedition to Great Zimbabwe in 1891 and the prominent part played by Mabel Bent”, by Mike Tucker (2024, online at ZimfieldGuide.com).