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Pioneer to the Past: The Life of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist, Told by His Son Charles. Reprint of the Charles Scribner's Sons 1943 Edition with New Foreword and Photographs. Published in 2009.

Pioneer to the Past: The Life of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist, Told by His Son Charles

Reprint of the Charles Scribner's Sons 1943 Edition with New Foreword and Photographs

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Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly moving story of the brilliant career of James Henry Breasted, one of the greatest Egyptologists and archaeologists America has yet produced. Breasted's greatest achievement was the founding of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in 1919, through the generous support of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The Oriental Institute embodies Breasted's vision of an inter-disciplinary research center that unites archaeology, textual

• Pioneer to the Past: The Life of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist, Told by His Son Charles
• Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2009
• Pp. ix + 436; 16 black-and-white photo plates
• Trim: 6" x 9"
• ISBN-13: 978-1-885923-67-7
• ISBN-10: 1-885923-67-8
• Hardback: $24.95