James Henry Breasted

James Breasted in Chicago, 1928. 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
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Published 1929
Kitāb tārīkh Miṣr min aqdam al-ʻuṣūr ilá al-fatḥ al-Fārisī /

: Translation of A history of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest. : 22, 11, 409 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.

Published 1935
Ancient times, a history of the early world : an introduction to the study of ancient history and the career of early man /

: xiii, 823 p. : illus. (incl. plans ) IV col. pl. (incl. front.) maps (part double) diagr. ; 21 cm. : Bibliography: p. 797-810: "Bibliography for topical studies" at end of each chapter.

Published 1938
The conquest of civilization /

: "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, plates. 23 cm.

Published 1964
A history of Egypt, from the earliest times to the Persian conquest /

: 537 pages ; 24 cm.

Published 1936
Geschichte Aegyptens /

: 630 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Published 1959
Development of religion and thought in ancient Egypt /

: 379 pages ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.

Published 1933
The Oriental Institute /

: "Chronological list of publications" : pages 435-438. : xxiii, 455 pages : color fronted, illustrations (facsimiles) color plans, maps (1 folded) plans (part folded) Diagrams ; 20 cm.

Published 1961
The dawn of conscience /

: xxvi, 431 pages : plates ; 21 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published 1903
The battle of Kadesh : a study in the earliest known military strategy /

: "Printed from First series, volume 5 (pages 81-126) of the Decennial publications of the University of Chicago". : 48 pages incl. maps : VII pl ; 29 cm.

Published 2001
Ancient records of Egypt /

: Originally published : Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1906.
Volumes 5 : Supplementary bibliographies / by Peter A. Piccione. : 5 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 0252069749 (volume 2 : paberback : alk. paper)
0252069757 (volume 3 : paberback : alk. paper)
0252069765 (volume 4 : paberback : alk. paper)
0252069900 (volume 1 : paberback : alk. paper)
0252069919 (volume 5 : paberback : alk. paper)

Published 1926
Histoire de l'Egypte depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la conquête persane /

: 2 volumes XVI-291 pages + pp. 192-632 pages : 114+186 illustrations, 15 cartes ; 25 cm.

Published 1924
Oriental forerunners of Byzantine painting : first-century wall paintings from the fortress of Dura on the middle Euphrates /

: 4 pages, 105 pages : illustrations, plans. (part color) maps (1 double) ; 31 cm.

The conquête de la civilisation /

: 564 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Published 1935
A history of the ancient Egyptians /

: This volume is largely a condensation and abridgment of the author's "A history of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest", 1905. : xiii, 469 pages : maps (part folded) double plan ; 19 cm.

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.

Published 1927
Ancient records of Egypt : historical documents from the earliest times to the Persian conquest /

: 5 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Histoire de l'Égypte : depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la conquète persane /

: Translation of : A history of Egypt. : 2 volumes (xvi, 632 pages), plates ; 24 cm.

A history of Egypt, from the earliest times to the Persian conquest.

: xxix , 2 l., 3-634 pages : illustrations, plates, maps (1 folded) ; 25 cm.

Ancient times : a history of the early world : with an introduction to the study of ancient history and the career of early man /

: xiii, 823 pages : illustrations (part color), maps (part folded, (part color), plans, portraits (part color) ; 20 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.

La conquête de la civilisation /

: 564 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

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