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James Henry Breasted (/ ˈ b r ɛ s t ɪ d /; August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian.After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894 – the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology – he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.
Ancient Records of Egypt is a five-volume work by James Henry Breasted, published in 1906, in which the author has attempted to translate and publish all the ancient written records of Egyptian history which had survived to the time of his work at the start of the twentieth century.
In the early 20th century, James Henry Breasted built up the collection of the university's Haskell Oriental Museum, which he oversaw along with his field work, and teaching duties. He dreamed, however, of establishing a research institute, "a laboratory for the study of the rise and development of civilization," that would trace Western ...
James Henry Breasted (American, 1865–1935) Edda Bresciani (Italian, 1930–2020) Bob Brier (American, born 1943) Edwin C. Brock (American, 1946–2015)
The excavation map of Dura-Europos. Tower 24, in the top left, was the find location of the shield. In the 1920s and 30s, Yale University and the French Academy held joint excavations of Dura-Europos, after the modern rediscovery of the site initiated with the widely published photos and findings of James Henry Breasted.
In 1901, James Henry Breasted identified the stone as a rectangular slab of black granite. [11] While other scholars postulated that the monument was a slab or basalt or a conglomerate stone, a recent analysis by a scientist of the British Museum revealed the stone to be green breccia originating from Wadi Hammamat. [12]
1916 map of the Fertile Crescent by James H. Breasted, who popularised usage of the phrase.. The term "Fertile Crescent" was popularized by archaeologist James Henry Breasted in Outlines of European History (1914) and Ancient Times, A History of the Early World (1916).
There its importance was recognized by Caroline Ransom Williams, who wrote to James Henry Breasted in 1920 about "the medical papyrus of the Smith collection" in hopes that he could work on it. [14] [15] He completed the first translation of the papyrus in 1930, with the medical advice of Dr. Arno B. Luckhardt.