CHICAGO PROFESSOR OWNS OLDEST SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT FOR COMPUTATION OF THE STARS
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) On September 24, 1924, James Grant reports in The Washington Times that ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamum*, a.k.a. King Tut, "was the first real star gazer."
Grant writes that Professor James H. Breasted** of the University of Chicago is in possession of "the oldest known scientific instrument for computation of the stars, believed to have been fashioned by King Tut himself."
The Professor stumbled on the instrument in a London antique shop.
*Tutankhamum, the Boy King, was an Egyptian pharoah 1332-1323 BC
**James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) was educated at Yale & Humbolt Universities & became the 1st professor of Egyptology in the United States at the University of Chicago in 1905.
SOURCE
"King Tut Spent Nights Gazing At Stars," by James Grant, The Washington Times, September 24, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
