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Ritner received his BA in psychology from Rice University in 1975, and his Ph.D. (with honors) in Egyptology from the University of Chicago in 1987. His dissertation was The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice.
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa is a center of active research on the ancient Near East. The building's upper floors contain a library, classrooms and faculty offices, and its gift shop, the Suq, also sells textbooks for the university's classes on Near Eastern studies.
- A.D. 45 (University of Chicago Press, 1942 [reprinted 1946]) The Calendars of Ancient Egypt, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (University of Chicago Press, 1950) Sothic Dates and Calendar Adjustment; The Problem of the Month-Names: A Reply (1957) Lunar Dates of Thutmose III and Ramesses II (Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1957)
In 1921, the Museum moved from its original location in Jackson Park to its present site on Chicago Park District property near downtown Chicago. [31] By the late 1930s the Field Museum had emerged as one of the three premier museums in the United States, the other two being the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the ...
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.
Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs 2nd ed. (Cambridge: University Press, 2010) The Debate between a Man and His Soul, a Masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian Literature (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 44; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011) The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study ...
Deir el-Medina (Egyptian Arabic: دير المدينة), or Dayr al-Madīnah, is an ancient Egyptian workmen's village which was home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to 20th Dynasties of the New Kingdom of Egypt (ca. 1550–1080 BC). [1]
Edward Frank Wente (born 1930) is an American professor emeritus of Egyptology and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. [1] [2] He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1959 and lectured there from 1963 to 1996. [1] He is also a longstanding member of the Oriental Institute ...