November 29, 1922 — Dr. James Breasted aides in the opening of the tomb of King Tut in Egypt and translates the tomb’s runes.

Dr. James Henry Breasted moved to Downers Grove with his family in 1871, when Breasted was 6 years old.

He attended the Lincoln School from 1873 to 1880. He went on to become a “Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History,” and became one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient Egypt, and participated in several early archaeological studies of Egypt.

His most famous excavation is of the tomb of King Tutankhamun (King Tut) in 1922.