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According to Wikipedia, James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, 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.

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The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus : published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary in two volumes (136)
A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (1937) (94)
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (1919) (70)
The dawn of conscience (1934) (56)
Development Of Religion And Thought In Ancient Egypt (1913) (53)
The Philosophy of a Memphite Priest (35)
King Harmhab and his Sakkara Tomb (29)
The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook. (1912) (29)
The Oriental Institute (27)
Oriental Exploratíon Fund of the Universíty of Chícago. Second Preliminary Report of the Egyptian Expedition (1906) (26)
The New Crusade (24)
The conquest of civilization (1927) (19)
The Report of Wenamon (1905) (17)
Book Review: Ancient Times: A History of the Early World (1917) (10)
Oriental forerunners of Byzantine painting : First-Century wall paintings from the fortress of Dura on the Middle Euphrates (8)
THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION (1924) (8)
Egypt through the stereoscope : a journey through the land of the Pharaohs [Electronic Version] (6)
Origin of Civilization (1922) (6)
THE RISE OF MAN. (1931) (6)
The Beginnings of Time-Measurement and the Origins of Our Calendar (1935) (6)
The Earliest Boats on the Nile (1917) (4)
The Place of the near Orient in the Career of Man and the Task of the American Orientalist (3)
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: A Beginning and a Program (1922) (3)
The Earliest Occurrence of the Name of Abram (1904) (3)
Recovery and Decipherment of the Monuments of Ancient Ethiopia (1908) (3)
The First Philosopher. (1902) (3)
Survey of the Ancient World (3)
The "Field of Abram" in the Geographical List of Sheshonk (2)
Historical Tradition and Oriental Research (1924) (2)
Professor Petrie's "Egyptian Research Account." (1897) (2)
The Physical Processes of Writing in the Early Orient and Their Relation to the Origin of the Alphabet (1916) (2)
John Merlin Powis Smith (1933) (1)
Oriental Exploration Fund of the University of Chicago. First Preliminary Report of the Egyptian Expedition (1906) (1)
The Oriental Institute Archaeological Report on the Near East: Fourth Quarter, 1934 (1935) (1)
The Development of the Priesthood in Israel and Egypt-A Comparison (1893) (1)
When Did the Hittites Enter Palestine? (1905) (1)
Manual of Egyptian Archæology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt. G. Maspero , Amelia B. Edwards (1896) (1)
Survey of Recent Biblical Literature: V. Archaeology (1926) (1)
The Oldest Known Surgical Treatise (1928) (1)
The Order of the Sentence in the Hebrew Portions of Daniel (1891) (1)
The Ancient History of the near East with Remarks on Western Asia (1914) (1)
The Israel Tablet (1897) (1)
Excavations of the Egyptian Research Account at El Kab (1897) (1)
Champollion (1907) (1)
Eightieth Birthday of Georg Steindorff (1941) (0)
The Message of the Religion of Egypt (1907) (0)
History of Europe : ancient and medieval, earliest man, the orient, greece and rome / by James Henry Breasted; Europe from the break up of the roman empire to the French revolution by James Harvey Robinson (0)
Publication of the Egyptian Monuments in the Museum of Leyden (Third Instalment) (1911) (0)
The Oriental Institute Archaeological Report on the Near East (1934) (0)
The Oriental Institute Archaeological Report on the Near East (1934) (0)
The Newly-Discovered Latin Translation of the Epistle of Clement (1894) (0)
University of Chicago Survey@@@The Oriental Institute (1934) (0)
Outlines of Greek and Roman History to A.D. 180 (0)
A Sketch of Egyptian History from the Fall of the Native Kings to the Persian Conquest (1897) (0)
The Philosophy of a Memphite Priest. With a Reproduction of the Memphite Slab. (0)
New Light on the History of the Eleventh Dynasty (1905) (0)
Recent excavations at Persepolis (0)
Egyptian Monuments in the Leyden Museum (1917) (0)
Back of Frontispiece (1932) (0)
Publication of the Egyptian Monuments in the Museum of Leyden (Fourth Instalment) (1913) (0)
The Royal Feud in the Wadi Halfa Temple: A Rejoinder (1910) (0)
Scientific Egyptology (1893) (0)
The Oriental Institute Archaeological Report on the Near East (1934) (0)
The Latest from Egypt (1904) (0)
Temple-Worship in Ancient Egypt (0)
A New Introductory Handbook of Egyptian (1914) (0)
Back Matter (1936) (0)
Egyptian Paleography (1910) (0)
Back Matter (1934) (0)
The Latest from Egypt (1893) (0)
Publication of the Egyptian Monuments in the Museum of Leyden (Fifth Instalment)Beschreibung der aegyptischen Sammlung des niederländischen Reichs-Museums der Altertümer in Leiden. P. A. A. Boeser (0)
Publication of the Egyptian Monuments in the Museum of Leyden (1907) (0)
Book Review:The Book of the Dead E. A. Wallis Budge (1902) (0)
Jewelry from the Tombs of Egypt (1903) (0)
The New Found Treasure of the Twelfth Dynasty (1894) (0)
The Latest Discovery from the Egyptian Fayum (1894) (0)
The Earliest Boats on the Nile (1917) (0)
Ramses II. and the Princes in the Karnak Reliefs of Seti I. (0)
Some Egyptian Names in Genesis-A New Inscription of the Oldest Period, etc. (1893) (0)
The Oldest Fixed Date in History (1906) (0)
Recovering New History (1928) (0)
Publication of the Egyptian Monuments in the Museum of Leyden (Fifth Instalment) (1914) (0)
Sketch of Egyptian History with Special Reference to Palestine down to about 950 B. C. (1896) (0)
Earlier ages : history of civilization (1937) (0)
Egypt and the Bible (1910) (0)
The First Season of the University of Chicago Egyptian Expedition (1906) (0)
The Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt (1905) (0)
The Hastings Bible Dictionary (0)
Breasted's Dawn of Conscience (1934) (0)
The Earliest Social Prophet (0)
Babylonian Religion and Literature (1912) (0)
The Latest from Petrie (1896) (0)
The Oriental Institute Archaeological Report on the Near East: First Quarter, 1935 (1935) (0)
A City of Ikhenaton in Nubia (0)
Important Actions Taken by the Board of Directors at the Philadelphia Meeting April 23-25, 1919 (0)
Recent European history : brief course (0)
A Dictionary of the Bible. James Hastings (1902) (0)
Exploration and Discovery (1905) (0)
Eightieth Anniversary of Professor Steindorff (1941) (0)
The Oriental Institute Archaeological Report on the Near East (1935) (0)
The Art of the Ancient Craftsman in Gold, Silver, and Semi-Precious Stones (1925) (0)
Last Season in Egypt (1905) (0)
Recent American Wall Maps: A Review@@@Breasted Ancient History Series@@@Harding European History Series@@@Hart-Bolton American History Series@@@Ancient History Maps@@@Medieval and Modern History Maps@@@Westermann Classical and Historical Maps@@@Denoyer-Geppert Political Geography Series@@@Commerical (1924) (0)
Publication of the Egyptian Monuments in the Museum of Leyden (Second Instalment) (1910) (0)
Egyptian Paleography (1913) (0)
Time and its mysteries (1937) (0)
Egypt-Her Religion and Her Relation to Israel (1910) (0)
Our world today and yesterday : a history of modern civilization (0)
The Latest Accessions to Haskell Oriental Museum (1897) (0)
Encyclopædia Biblica. Vol. III, L-P. T. K. Cheyne , J. Sutherland Black (1901) (0)
A Hieratic Reader (1910) (0)

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