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James Henry Breasted

Born

in Rockford, Illinois, The United States

August 27, 1865

Died

December 02, 1935

Genre

Nonfiction, History

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James Henry Breasted 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 of Chicago, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to professor, and was the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States. In 1919 he became the founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
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	فجر الضمير by James Henry Breasted, جيمس هنرى برستيد, سليم حسن (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 813 ratings — published 1933 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest 3.99 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 1905 — 189 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Times: A History of the Early World 4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1916 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt 4.04 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1972 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	انتصار الحضارة تاريخ الشرق القديم by James Henry Breasted, أحمد فخري (translator), ممدوح الدماطي (preface) 3.63 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1926 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Egypt, Part 1: From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Records of Egypt, Volume 1: The First through the Seventeenth Dynasties by James Henry Breasted (Editor), John Rockefeller (Primary Contributor), Peter A Piccione (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2001 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Ancient Egypt 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1990 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Records of Egypt, Volume 2: The Eighteenth Dynasty 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2001 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.”
― James Henry Breasted

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“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.”
― James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, 2 Vols

tags: anatomy, ancient-egypt, ancient-medicine, archaeology, biology, broken-bones, fractures, medical-history, skeletons

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“Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the human heart are observed.”
― James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary

tags: anatomy, ancient-egypt, ancient-medicine, biology, hieroglyphic, human-heart, medical-history, philology, pulse

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