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“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 childhood.”

Quote by James Henry Breasted

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James Henry Breasted

James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist renowned for his research on ancient Egypt. Born on August 27, 1865, and passing away on December 2, 1935, Breasted made significant contributions to the field of archaeology, particularly in the study of ancient Egyptian civilization. more

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“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 Mediterranean.”

Facts Seems Born Study Doubt Civilization Careful Corners Available No Doubt

Author:James Henry Breasted

“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 contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.”

Art Culture Students Products Civilization Contemporary Surprising Egypt Ripe Crude Contemporary Art Nile

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“Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.”

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Book:The Conquest of Civilization

Source: The Conquest of Civilization

“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 ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.”

Firsts Universe Process Cases Evolution Civilization Highest First Time Carrie Globes Advent Ascent

Author:James Henry Breasted

“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 analogous to that of natural science.”

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“The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.”

Men Firsts He Man Ancient Historian

Book:The Oriental Institute

Source: The Oriental Institute

“William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.”

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“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 the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.”

Way Littles Sides Rooms Known Doubt Groups Land Creation Civilization Bridges Fourth Egypt Both Sides Millennium

Author:James Henry Breasted

“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 instruction is an event less than two centuries old.”

Humans Two Century Events University Obvious Backgrounds Recognition Instruction Inclusion

Book:The Oriental Institute

Source: The Oriental Institute

“The most terrible things end, at last.”

Ends Lasts Terrible Terrible Things

Book:The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks

Source: The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks