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James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted (; 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. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to full professor, and held the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States.Breasted was a committed field researcher in Egypt and the Levant and had a productive interest in recording and interpreting ancient writings, especially from sources and structures that he feared may be lost forever. In 1919 he founded the Oriental Institute (later known as, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures) at the University of Chicago, a center for interdisciplinary study of ancient civilizations. That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Provided by Wikipedia
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago : a beginning and a program /
: "Preprinted from the American journal of Semitic language, vol. XXXVIII, July, 1922, pp. 233-328." : 2 preliminary leaves, 96 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including facsimile, diagram, forms) folded facsim ; 25 cm.
Intiṣār al-ḥaḍārah : tārīkh al-Sharq al-qadīm /
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Translation of the first 8 chapters of: The conquest of civilization /by James Henry Breasted. Harper, 1938.
First appeared as a text-book in 1916 under the title Ancient times. :
300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The conquest of civilization /
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"Illustrated lining-papers".
At head of title : New edition, fully revised and reset.
The plates, which precede title-pages, have half-title : sixteen pages of photographs specially selected by Charles Breasted, many of them through the courtesy of the Oriental Institute, for The conquest of civilization. :
xii, 669 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.