James Henry Breasted

James Henry Breasted

male, deceased (1935)
Fertile Crescent, From Rockford, Illinois, North Central College alumni, hieroglyphic, Archaeologist, egyptologist…OrientalInstitute
James Henry Breasted (August 27 1865-December 2, 1935) was born in Rockford, Illinois and was an archaeologist and historian. He was educated at...
Norman Golb

Norman Golb

male
Jewish, University of Chicago, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, historian, Dead Sea Scrolls…OrientalInstitute
Norman Golb (1928-) is the Ludwig Rosenberger Professor in Jewish History and Civilization at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago....
Thorkild Jacobsen

Thorkild Jacobsen

male, deceased (1993)
Harvard University, University of Chicago, PhD, Academic, Danish, sumerian…OrientalInstitute
Thorkild Jacobsen (Danish pronunciation: [yahkobsen]) was a renowned historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian literature. Jacobsen...
Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi

Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi

male, 69 years old
University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, iranian, Archaeologist, Anthropologist, fulbright…OrientalInstitute
Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi (born in April 24, 1940) is an Iranian archaeologist and anthropologist. In 1964 he finished his BA in archaeology at the...

Christopher Melchert

male
University of Pennsylvania, OrientalInstitute, Non-Muslim Islamic scholar, Pembroke College, Oxford, Common Era, University of Oxford…Oriental Institute, Oxford
Christopher Melchert is an American non-Muslim Islamic scholar, specialising in Islamic movements and institutions, ninth to tenth centuries C.E....

Martin Goodman

male, 56 years old
Christian, Wolfson College, Oxford, Roman History, Judaea, Graeco-Roman, OrientalInstitute…Oriental Institute, Oxford
Martin David Goodman (born 1 August 1953) is a historian and writer on Roman history and the history and literature of the Jews in the Roman...

Erich Schmidt

male, deceased (1964)
Erich Friedrich Schmidt, Baden-Baden, Archaeologist, German, World War I, persepolis…OrientalInstitute
Erich Friedrich Schmidt (b. September 13, 1897 - d. October 3, 1964) was a German and American-naturalized archaeologist, born in Baden-Baden. He...

A. Leo Oppenheim

male, deceased (1974)
University of Chicago, Academic, American, cuneiform, University of Vienna, Assyriology…OrientalInstitute
A(dolph) Leo Oppenheim (7 June 1904 - 21 July 1974), one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of his generation was editor-in-charge of the...

Peter Dorman

male
Golosa, University of Chicago faculty, gilbert and sullivan, Peter Fitzgerald Dorman, epigraphist, OrientalInstitute
Peter Fitzgerald Dorman is an epigraphist, philologist, and cultural anthropologist. He is professor and chair in the department of Near Eastern...

Mark Lehner

male
Yale University, The Complete Pyramids, scientific method of discovery, Ancient Egypt Research Associates, OrientalInstitute, Giza pyramid complex
Dr. Mark Lehner is an American archaeologist with over thirty years' experience excavating in Egypt. His approach, as director of Ancient Egypt...