: the life of James Henry Breasted and the creation of his Oriental Institute
/ Jeffrey Abt.
Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
, 2011.
xviii, 510 p.
: ill., maps
; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Equipment for a great work -- What the monuments say -- Two years, three books, seven volumes -- Expeditions to Nubia -- Spreading wings -- The Near East as a whole -- An institute, a calling -- Permanence -- A historical laboratory.