Pioneer to the Past : The Story of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist, Paperback by Breasted, Charles, ISBN 1614910537, ISBN-13 9781614910534, Brand New, Free shipping in the US James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist and archaeologist, founded the Oriental Institute in 1919. The Institute embodies Breasted’s vision of an inter-disciplinary research centre uniting archaeology, textual studies and art history. Reprint with new foreword and photographs, now available in paperback for the first time.