Front cover image for American Egyptologist : the Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute

American Egyptologist : the Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute

James Henry Breasted (1865 & ndash;1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tomb of King Tut, and was on the cover of Time magazine. But Breasted was more than an Indiana Jones & mdash;he was an accomplished scholar, academic entrepreneur, and talented author who brought ancient history to life not just for students but for such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Sigmund Freud. In American Egyptologist, Jeffrey Abt weaves tog
eBook, English, 2012
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2012
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9780226001128, 9780226001104, 9781280126536, 0226001121, 0226001105, 1280126531
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List of Maps; Epigraph; Note to the Reader; 1. Equipment for a Great Work; 2. What the Monuments Say; 3. Two Years, Three Books, Seven Volumes; 4. Expeditions to Nubia; 5. Spreading Wings; 6. The Near East as a Whole; 7. An Institute, a Calling; 8. Permanence; 9. A Historical Laboratory; Epitaph; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index