Egyptologist, archeologist & historian
Coined term "Fertile Crescent" in his 1916 book Ancient Times
On Time magazine cover in 1931
1891 MA Yale
1894 Ph.D University of Berlin, 1st American to receive Ph.D. in Egyptology.
1894 appointed instructor Egyptian studies at University of Chicago by President William Raney Harper
1916 wrote "Ancient Times", he coined term "Fertile Crescent" The book brought him to the attention of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1929 Breasted hosted Rockefeller, his wife Abby, and son David, then 13, on a 3 month tour Egypt, Palestine & Syria. This relationship resulted in Rockefeller support for the Oriental Institute that Breasted founded in 1919 at the University of Chicago & for funding in 1930-31 of the new Chicago House in Luxor (360 miles south of Cairo). Chicago House is still the center of the archeology community in Luxor with it's 18,000 book library.
1931 on Time magazine cover at time of opening of the new Oriental Institute building on the University of Chicago campus
Coined term "Fertile Crescent" in his 1916 book Ancient Times
On Time magazine cover in 1931
1891 MA Yale
1894 Ph.D University of Berlin, 1st American to receive Ph.D. in Egyptology.
1894 appointed instructor Egyptian studies at University of Chicago by President William Raney Harper
1916 wrote "Ancient Times", he coined term "Fertile Crescent" The book brought him to the attention of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1929 Breasted hosted Rockefeller, his wife Abby, and son David, then 13, on a 3 month tour Egypt, Palestine & Syria. This relationship resulted in Rockefeller support for the Oriental Institute that Breasted founded in 1919 at the University of Chicago & for funding in 1930-31 of the new Chicago House in Luxor (360 miles south of Cairo). Chicago House is still the center of the archeology community in Luxor with it's 18,000 book library.
1931 on Time magazine cover at time of opening of the new Oriental Institute building on the University of Chicago campus
Egyptologist, archeologist & historian
Coined term "Fertile Crescent" in his 1916 book Ancient Times
On Time magazine cover in 1931
1891 MA Yale
1894 Ph.D University of Berlin, 1st American to receive Ph.D. in Egyptology.
1894 appointed instructor Egyptian studies at University of Chicago by President William Raney Harper
1916 wrote "Ancient Times", he coined term "Fertile Crescent" The book brought him to the attention of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1929 Breasted hosted Rockefeller, his wife Abby, and son David, then 13, on a 3 month tour Egypt, Palestine & Syria. This relationship resulted in Rockefeller support for the Oriental Institute that Breasted founded in 1919 at the University of Chicago & for funding in 1930-31 of the new Chicago House in Luxor (360 miles south of Cairo). Chicago House is still the center of the archeology community in Luxor with it's 18,000 book library.
1931 on Time magazine cover at time of opening of the new Oriental Institute building on the University of Chicago campus
Coined term "Fertile Crescent" in his 1916 book Ancient Times
On Time magazine cover in 1931
1891 MA Yale
1894 Ph.D University of Berlin, 1st American to receive Ph.D. in Egyptology.
1894 appointed instructor Egyptian studies at University of Chicago by President William Raney Harper
1916 wrote "Ancient Times", he coined term "Fertile Crescent" The book brought him to the attention of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1929 Breasted hosted Rockefeller, his wife Abby, and son David, then 13, on a 3 month tour Egypt, Palestine & Syria. This relationship resulted in Rockefeller support for the Oriental Institute that Breasted founded in 1919 at the University of Chicago & for funding in 1930-31 of the new Chicago House in Luxor (360 miles south of Cairo). Chicago House is still the center of the archeology community in Luxor with it's 18,000 book library.
1931 on Time magazine cover at time of opening of the new Oriental Institute building on the University of Chicago campus
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