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 – 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 to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to full professor, and held the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States.
James Breasted in Chicago, 1928.
James H. Breasted, of University of Chicago, 1928
Breasteds at Abu Simbel, 1906
Egyptology is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD.
Howard Carter opens the coffin of the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun
Ibn Wahshiyya's 985 CE incorrect translation of the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph alphabet
The gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun, one of the most symbolic artifacts representing ancient Egypt and Egyptology today
Hieroglyphs and depictions transcribed by Ippolito Rosellini in 1832