In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“With the consolidation under Menes it was already an institution of great age, and over four centuries of development which then followed, had at… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Not all the gods who appear in these tales and fancies became more than mythological figures. Many of them continued merely in this role,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Keb and Nut were the father and mother of the four divinities, Osiris and Isis, Set and Nephthys; together they formed with their primeval… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
