Part IV: Recovery and Reclamation
What was lost is being found again. Archaeological discoveries in Egyptian sands and Himalayan caves, new methods of manuscript analysis, and feminist scholarship across traditions are recovering voices that official histories forgot. This section brings the story into the present: how buried texts reveal buried women, how scholars are learning to read between the lines of hostile sources, and how contemporary women across all traditions are reclaiming and reshaping their sacred inheritance. The work of recovery is ongoing—and it's changing how we understand not just the past, but the future of religious authority and spiritual wisdom.