James Henry Breasted Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 14 quotes by James Henry Breasted James Henry Breasted (/ˈbrɛstɪd/; August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist 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 of Chicago, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to professor, and was the first chair in Egyptology and... Read full biography of James Henry Breasted → 1 2 Ctrl → Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest... → 0 By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude... → 0 There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of... → 0 Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. 0 It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place... → 0 We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. 0 But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land... → 0 In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest... → 0 There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture... → 0 This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university... → 0 To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the... → 0 The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. 0 In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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