Egypt
- Book Review: Pioneer To The Past
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) Pioneer to the Past. Story of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist The Story of archaeologist James Henry Breasted, by his son Charles Breasted, University of Chicago, 2009. (Reprint of Scribner's 1943 publication) The...
- Exhibition: Pioneers To The Past
Chicago Public Radio Radio inverview (audio) for which the introductory paragraphs are below: “Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920,” is on display at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute through...
- Exhibition: More Re Pioneers To The Past
Media-Newswire A new exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute Museum chronicles an amazing and sometimes dangerous journey 90 years ago by James Henry Breasted, a famed archaeologist who brought back Egyptian artifacts to Chicago....
- Exhibition: Pioneers To The Past
Chicago Tribune (William Mullen) James Henry Breasted, founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, was short, bespectacled and cerebral -- hardly fitting the picture of Indiana Jones, the fictional archaeologist many think was based...
- Weekly Websites
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Egypt
Book Review: American Egyptologist
Wall Street Journal (John Ray)
In 1922, the University of Oxford conferred an honorary degree on James Henry Breasted, who was at the height of his fame as an Egyptologist and historian of the ancient world. As he listened to the Latin oration, the great scholar's mind went back to his days as a boy in Rockford, Ill., barefoot and dusty, watching the local blacksmith shoe his father's only horse. Sooner or later, he felt, somebody would be bound to find him out as an impostor—someone who had risen beyond his merits. We know this because he was not ashamed to record these thoughts in his diary.
The origins of James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) were certainly humble. His small-town background was staunchly Congregationalist, and his family encouraged him toward the ministry. His early training was in pharmacy, but an increasing awareness of apparent contradictions in the biblical narrative began to trouble his faith. It also impelled him to turn to Egypt and Mesopotamia, the civilizations that lay behind much of the world of the Old Testament.
There was no institution in the United States where Breasted could study this sort of ancient history, Jeffrey Abt notes in "American Egyptologist," his authoritative account of Breasted's varied life.
- Book Review: Pioneer To The Past
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) Pioneer to the Past. Story of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist The Story of archaeologist James Henry Breasted, by his son Charles Breasted, University of Chicago, 2009. (Reprint of Scribner's 1943 publication) The...
- Exhibition: Pioneers To The Past
Chicago Public Radio Radio inverview (audio) for which the introductory paragraphs are below: “Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920,” is on display at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute through...
- Exhibition: More Re Pioneers To The Past
Media-Newswire A new exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute Museum chronicles an amazing and sometimes dangerous journey 90 years ago by James Henry Breasted, a famed archaeologist who brought back Egyptian artifacts to Chicago....
- Exhibition: Pioneers To The Past
Chicago Tribune (William Mullen) James Henry Breasted, founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, was short, bespectacled and cerebral -- hardly fitting the picture of Indiana Jones, the fictional archaeologist many think was based...
- Weekly Websites
Weekly Websites has been missing for the last two weeks, mainly because I haven't been here very much. So here are some diverse pages to kick it off again. OsirisNet www.osirisnet.net Another ruthless plug for a super online resource. OsirisNet need...