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	Encyclopedia: James Henry Breasted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James Henry Breasted (August 27, 1865â“December 2, 1935) was born in Rockford, Illinois and was an archaeologist and historian.
		James Breasted was born in 1865 in Rockford, Illinois and is an American Orientalist, archaeologist and historian.
		James Henry Breasted, the first American to receive a Ph.D. in Egyptology, was appointed by President Harper to fill the first teaching position in Egyptian studies in the United States.
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	James Henry Breasted: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James Henry Breasted (August 27 1865–December 2, 1935) was born in Rockford, Illinois (additional info and facts about Rockford, Illinois) and was an archaeologist (An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture) and historian (A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it).
		He became an instructor at the University of Chicago (A university in Chicago, Illinois) in 1894 and was appointed Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History at in 1905 (the first such chair in the United States).
		Breasted is now perhaps most widely known for his coinage of the term "the Fertile Crescent (A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates) " to describe the area from Egypt to Mesopotamia.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_henry_breasted.htm (357 words)

	Breasted, James Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Breasted was also director of the Haskell Oriental Museum (1895–1901) and after 1919 founding director of the Oriental Institute of the Univ. of Chicago; under his leadership, this became one of the foremost research institutions on the ancient Middle East.
		Breasted translated and edited Egyptian historical sources in Ancient Records of Egypt (5 vol., 1906–27).
		His son, Charles Breasted, wrote a memoir of him, Pioneer to the Past (1943).
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	James H. Breasted
		James and Frances Breasted and son Charles, Temple of Amada, Nubia, Upper Egypt, 1906.
		Frances Hart and James Breasted were married in Germany shortly after he completed his doctoral work at the University of Berlin.
		James Henry Breasted was one of the most widely known members of the University of Chicago faculty, a popularizer and textbook writer as well as America's first teacher of Egyptology.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/spcl/centcat/fac/facch10_01.html (492 words)

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		Breasted led a team of five scholars of the ancient Near East on a ten-month epic journey through the war-torn and fractious Middle East to survey archaeological sites for future research, as well as to suss the political situations in Egypt and Western Asia.
		Breasted's correspondences reveal his informed opinions about these historic individuals, the contents of their discussions, and all that he witnessed, including: the entrenchment of European colonialism and the Anglo-French partition of Western Asia, the rise of Arab nationalism, Middle Eastern wars, the Balfour Declaration, and the Palestine question.
		Breasted makes clear that this Arab affection for Americans was the only factor that kept the expedition alive on the several occasions that it fell into hostile situations.
	www.cofc.edu /~piccione/breasted.html (831 words)

	Amazon.com: Ancient Records of Egypt: The First Through the Seventeenth Dynasties, Vol. 1: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1906, Breasted, America's first noted Egyptologist, published this series in which he presents a history of the golden age of Egypt gleaned from its records, many of which he was the first scholar to be allowed to study.
		Breasted made his own copies of hundreds of Egyptian records inscribed on papyrus or leather or carved in stone and engaged in a thorough study of the published records of Egyptian history in conjunction with his own transcription of the documents themselves.
		Breasted's commentary is both rigorously documented and accessible, suffused with a contagious fascination for the events, the personalities, the cultural practices, and the sophistication these records indicate.
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	McClung Museum -Stereoscope
		It is a curious fact that the brothers Bert and Elmer Underwood were born in Illinois as was James Henry Breasted, Elmer in 1859 and his brother Bert in 1862, the latter three years before Breasted’s birth in 1865.
		Breasted had observed the popularity of the stereoscope and in particular the advancements made by Underwood and Underwood.
		Breasted was intensely interested in new methods and new techniques in recovering early chapters of man’s history, but chiefly in promoting a new attitude to and a new interpretation of the past.
	mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /newresearch/stereoscope/stereoscope.htm (3141 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - James Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James, Henry (1843-1916), American writer who spent most of his adult life living in Britain.
		Breasted, James Henry (1865-1935), American Orientalist, archaeologist, and historian, born in Rockford, Illinois, and educated at Chicago...
		Scullin, James Henry (1876-1953), Prime Minister of Australia (1929-1932).
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	Nubia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		During the same period Weni, on his second expedition to the quarries of the south excavated five canals and built seven boats, for which the chiefs of Irtjet, Wawat, Yam and Medjay supplied the timber.
		The revenge the Egyptians took on the rebels was savage: all the males were killed apart from one of the Chief's sons, who was taken as prisoner to the capital of Egypt.
		In an inscription at Karnak Hatshepsut had claimed that her southern boundary is as far as the lands of Punt; but only by the middle of the 15th century BCE the land up to the 4th cataract was in Egyptian hands and remained so until the eclipse of Egyptian might.
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	Breasted, James Henry -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Born in Rockford, Ill., James Henry Breasted studied at Yale and Berlin before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1894.
		The British poet laureate from 1790 to 1813 was Henry James Pye.
		Henry Wriothesley, to whom Shakespeare dedicated two poems, was one of the writer's first patrons.
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	Breasted, James Henry on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He began teaching at the Univ. of Chicago in 1894 and was (1905-33) professor of Egyptology and Oriental history there.
		Breasted was also director of the Haskell Oriental Museum (1895-1901) and after 1919 founding director of the Oriental Institute of the Univ. of Chicago; under his leadership, this became one of the foremost research institutions on the ancient Middle East.
		Breasted translated and edited Egyptian historical sources in Ancient Records of Egypt (5 vol., 1906-27).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/breasted.asp (382 words)

	Ancient Egyptian raw materials: metals - copper, bronze, iron, gold, silver, lead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I have wrought thy limbs of electrum, thy bones of copper, thy organs of iron.
		Until the New Kingdom most of the copper used in Egypt was seemingly mined in the eastern desert or Sinai [5].
		Electrum was worked and used similarly to gold: chariots, thrones and offering-tables were wrought with it, ceilings, roofs, columns and pyramidions covered with it, amulets, statues and jewellery fashioned from it.
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		Recognized as a scholar of great intellect and blessed with tremendous charisma, Breasted was able to expound upon the value and relevance of ancient Near Eastern studies in a way that transformed influential listeners into loyal supporters.
		Breasted's primary supporter, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., enabled Breasted to make the Oriental Institute a place of unparalleled breadth and resources in the academic world.
		Between his long-term relationship with Rockefeller, and his expansive vision for scientific understanding of the ancient Near East, Breasted created an institution that, to this day, is a global leader in the archaeological, historical, and linguistic study of the ancient Near East.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/04/040524.wttw.html (548 words)

	American Historical Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The history and civilization of Egypt, by James Henry Breasted.
		The conquest of civilization, by James Henry Breasted.
		The dawn of conscience, by James Henry Breasted.
	www.historians.org /info/AHA_history/jhbreastedbibliography.htm (144 words)

	The social classes in ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		From the Middle Kingdom onwards their power and independence were curtailed, and many of their administrative functions were taken over by the vizierate.
		Metjen inhabited a 10,000 m² mansion, while urban workers and their families lived in flats of less than 100 m², and his walled in vineyard covered 500 ha.
		Slaves who became a major factor for social instability in Greece and imperial Rome, were relatively few in number and perhaps better treated.
	www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/people/social_classes.htm (3193 words)

	James Henry Scullin -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Australian statesman and Labor premier of New South Wales (1925–27, 1930–32) whose defiance of Australia's Labor prime minister James Henry Scullin's economic policies contributed to Scullin's defeat in 1931 and to the decline of the Labor Party from national power.
		The publication in 1861 of Henry Maine's first book, ‘Ancient Law', established his reputation as a scholar and pioneer in the field of comparative law.
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	Siege Warfare in Ancient Egypt
		An embankment was made, to inclose the wall; a tower was raised to elevate the archers while shooting, and the slingers while slinging stones, and slaying people among them daily.
		While some of the Lower Egyptian towns were besieged, Piye decided against this in the case of Memphis after Tefnakht had gone north to raise troops for the defense of the city.
		Early siege warfare was undoubtedly a costly affair from the standpoint of human life, though in some situations the king's may have looked upon this as simply a loss of resources.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/siegewarfare.htm (2446 words)

	James Henry Breasted - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He became an instructor at the University of Chicago in 1894 and was appointed Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History at in 1905 (the first such chair in the United States).
		He is buried in Greenwood cemetery, Rockford, Illinois.
		This page was last modified 17:45, 29 December 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Henry_Breasted (282 words)

	Library Holdings
		Frankfort, Henri, The Birth of Civilization in the Near East, 1951.
		Baikie, James, A Century of Excavation in the Land of the.
		James,, George Stolen Legacy: The Greeks Were Not the Authors of Greek Philosophy, but the People of NorthAfrica Commonly Called the Egyptians, New York,.
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	Additions1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James Henry Breasted, A HISTORY OF THE EARLY WORLD:
		James Henry Breasted, A HISTORY OF THE EARLY WORLD: An Introduction to the Study of Ancient History and the Career of Early Man
		A piece of original artwork by Amanda Smith (wife of Professor James A. Smith).
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		James Henry Breasted[bres´tid] Pronunciation Key, 1865–1935, American Egyptologist, b.
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	Ancient Records Of Egypt: Volume 3; The Nineteenth Dynasty; Breasted, James Henry; Piccione, Peter A.; Paperback; World ...
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		Breasted's pioneering English translations of all available historical documents of ancient Egypt.P>The Nineteenth Dynasty
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	Find in a Library: Pioneer to the past; the story of James Henry Breasted, archaeologist
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		Ancient Records of Egypt- Part 4, James Henry Breasted.
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		The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics) ~ Henry James -- (Paperback - April 28, 1994)
		Ancient Records of Egypt: Vol 1 ~ James Henry Breasted (Editor) -- (Paperback - May 1, 2001)
		Ancient Records of Egypt: Vol 2 ~ James Henry Breasted (Editor) -- (Paperback - May 1, 2001)
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		The Book of the Dead: Or, Going Forth by Day: Ideas of the Ancient Egyptians Concerning the Hereafter As Expressed in Their Own Terms.
		Allen, James P. Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs.
		Fischer, Henry G. Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy A Beginner's Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs.
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