Caroline Ransom Williams
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Caroline Ransom Williams was an Egyptologist and classical archaeologist. She was the first American woman to be professionally trained as an Egyptologist. She worked extensively with the Metropolitan
Bryn Mawr College Yearbook, 1908
Frontispiece, Studies in ancient furniture: Couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans, 1905
Entrance to the Tomb of Perneb at MMA
Frontispiece, The Stela of Menthu-Weser, 1913
James Henry Breasted
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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 – the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology –
Caroline Ransom Williams
…in the program. She received her Master of Arts in classical archaeology and Egyptology in 1900. The director of the Oriental Institute in Chicago, James Henry Breasted, became not only a mentor but a lifelong friend and correspondent of Ransom. Their letters are preserved in the Oriental Institute's archives. Ransom…
Breasted in Chicago, 1928.
Breasteds at Abu Simbel, 1906