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    American Egyptologist : the life of James Henry Breasted and the creation of his Oriental Institute / Jeffrey Abt.

    By: Abt, JeffreyMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011Description: xviii, 510 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226001104 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226001105 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 | University of Chicago. Oriental Institute -- History | Archaeology -- Egypt -- History | Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 | University of Chicago. Oriental Institute | Archaeology | Egypt | Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 | Oriental Institute Chicago, IllGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 932.0072/02 | B LOC classification: D15.B67 | .A26 2011
    Contents:
    Equipment for a great work -- What the monuments say -- Two years, three books, seven volumes -- Expeditions to Nubia -- Spreading wings -- The Near East as a whole -- An institute, a calling -- Permanence -- A historical laboratory.
    Summary: James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) 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. 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. - Publisher.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Equipment for a great work -- What the monuments say -- Two years, three books, seven volumes -- Expeditions to Nubia -- Spreading wings -- The Near East as a whole -- An institute, a calling -- Permanence -- A historical laboratory.

    James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) 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. 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. - Publisher.

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