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    James Henry Breasted (/ˈbrɛstɪd/; August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his...
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    held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003. In 2009 she was awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize. Her book The Graven Image demonstrated "a complete overturning...
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    founded for the university by Egyptology and ancient history professor James Henry Breasted with funds donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr. It conducts research...
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    Mesopotamia. The term "Fertile Crescent" was popularized by archaeologist James Henry Breasted in Outlines of European History (1914) and Ancient Times, A History...
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  • Ancient Records of Egypt is a five-volume work by James Henry Breasted, published in 1906, in which the author has attempted to translate and publish all...
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  • Instruction earlier than any part of the Bible, and egyptologists such as James Henry Breasted credit Amenemope with having a profound influence on Western ethical...
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    first scholarly report and reconstruction of the battle was done by James Henry Breasted in 1903, based on Egyptian sources. Egyptian influence over Amurru...
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    and the royal couple. He credits James Henry Breasted with the popularisation of them as hymns saying that Breasted saw them as "a gospel of the beauty...
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    guilty; they left him where he was; he took his own life.: 156  James Henry Breasted argued that Pentawer "was in all probability only an unfortunate...
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  • 27 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935) Alfred Foucher, French scholar and archaeologist of Buddhism (d. 1952) May 4: Henry Christy...
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