James Breasted: 5 books

Book cover of Ancient Times
by James Breasted
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

In the selection of subject matter as well as in style and diction, it has been the purpose of the author to make this book sufficiently simple to be put into the hands of first-year high-school pupils. A great deal of labor has been devoted to the mere task of clear and simple statement and arrangement....
Book cover of A History of Egypt
by James Henry Breasted
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012

James Henry Breasted (August 27, 1865 December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist and historian who focused his career on Egypt and did research into the rise of civilization in the Near East. In 1905, as a member of the University of Chicagos faculty, Breasted was promoted to professor in the...
Book cover of A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest
by James Henry Breasted
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017

James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued...
Book cover of Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt
by James Henry Breasted
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

CONTRARY to the popular and current impression, the most important body of sacred literature in Egypt is not the Book of the Dead, but a much older literature which we now call the “Pyramid Texts.” These texts, preserved in the Fifth and Sixth Dynasty Pyramids at Sakkara, form the oldest body of...
Book cover of Ancient Times a History of the Early World

Ancient Times a History of the Early World

An Introduction to the Study of Ancient History and the Career of Early Man

by James Henry Breasted
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

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