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
Fertile Crescent
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The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, together with northern Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey, and w
James Henry Breasted
…Hart Breasted died in 1934 after 40 years of marriage. After the death of his wife, Breasted married one of her sisters. Breasted popularized the term "Fertile Crescent" to describe the archaeologically important area including parts of present-day Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Israel. Breasted…
Diffusion of agriculture from the Fertile Crescent after 9000 BCE
Relief on the Ishtar Gate, Pergamenmuseum 4