Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
James Henry Breasted

Born: August 27, 1865
Died: December 2, 1935 (aged 70)
Bio: James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.
Known for:
- A History of the Ancient Egyptians (1905)
- Survey of the Ancient World (1919)
- Egypt Through The Stereoscope (1900)