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 –
Breasted in Chicago, 1928.
Breasteds at Abu Simbel, 1906
Mastaba
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A mastaba is a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with inward sloping sides, constructed out of mudbricks or limestone. These edifices marked the burial
James Henry Breasted
…colossal figure of James Henry Breasted. While at Chicago, Breasted had a home built near the university. Its carriage house was designed to look like a mastaba. The house is now used as the fraternity house of Phi Gamma Delta. Breasted is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, in Rockford, Illinois. His grave site is…
Example of a mastaba, the Mastabat al-Fir'aun of Shepseskaf