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- Exhibition: Picturing The Past At The Oi
Oriental Institute February 7 - September 2, 2012, Oriental Institute, Chicago. Download the Show Catalog in Adode Portable Document Format (pdf) Picturing the Past presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles, casts, models, photographs,...
- New Book: American Egyptologist: The Life Of James Henry Breasted
National Newswire Service Archaeologist James Henry Breasted was so well known during his lifetime that he landed on the cover of Time. When he died in 1935, the last half hour of his memorial service in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel was broadcast nationally...
- 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...
- Online Resource: Egypt Through The Stereoscope
Oriental Institute Egypt through the Stereoscope: A Journey through the Land of the Pharaohs James Henry Breasted Terms of Use The narrative of the classic Breasted travels through Egypt, accompanied by a stereoscopic camera, is presented with all 100...
- 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...
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Exhibition: More re Pioneers to the Past
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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.
“Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919–1920,” opens Tuesday, Jan. 12 and will feature artifacts as well as photos and letters documenting the journey of Breasted, who was the first American to receive a Ph.D. in Egyptology.
“The exhibit takes visitors along on a real–life adventure story that follows Breasted and his team as they traveled across the Middle East in the unstable aftermath of World War I, with tribal and nationalist rebellions making the trip extremely dangerous at many points,” said Geoff Emberling, Research Associate and Chief Curator of the Oriental Institute.
“This is a fascinating glimpse of a pivotal moment in history—the birth of the modern Middle East as we know it today, and at the same time, the genesis of modern archaeological research in the cradle of civilization,” said Gil Stein, Director of the Oriental Institute. “It’s one of the best examples I know of the ways that scholarship and politics interconnect in important and unexpected ways.”
- Exhibition: Picturing The Past At The Oi
Oriental Institute February 7 - September 2, 2012, Oriental Institute, Chicago. Download the Show Catalog in Adode Portable Document Format (pdf) Picturing the Past presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles, casts, models, photographs,...
- New Book: American Egyptologist: The Life Of James Henry Breasted
National Newswire Service Archaeologist James Henry Breasted was so well known during his lifetime that he landed on the cover of Time. When he died in 1935, the last half hour of his memorial service in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel was broadcast nationally...
- 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...
- Online Resource: Egypt Through The Stereoscope
Oriental Institute Egypt through the Stereoscope: A Journey through the Land of the Pharaohs James Henry Breasted Terms of Use The narrative of the classic Breasted travels through Egypt, accompanied by a stereoscopic camera, is presented with all 100...
- 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...