Eric H. Cline is Professor of Classics and Anthropology, the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the current Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at The George Washington University. A Fulbright scholar, National Geographic Explorer, Getty Scholar, and NEH Public Scholar with degrees from Dartmouth, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, he is an active field archaeologist with more than 30 seasons of excavation and survey experience in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States, including ten seasons at the site of Megiddo (biblical Armageddon) in Israel, from which he retired after serving as Co-Director with Israel Finkelstein of TAU, and ten seasons at Tel Kabri, where he is currently Co-Director with Assaf Yasur-Landau of the University of Haifa. A two-time winner (2014 and 2018) of the "Nancy Lapp Best Popular Book" Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and three-time winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society's "Best Popular Book on Archaeology" Award (2001, 2009, and 2011), he and his two co-editors were recently (2019) awarded the G. Ernest Wright Book Award for best edited volume from the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR). He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 22 books, including "The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age" (2000), "Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel" (2004), "From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible" (2007), "Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction" (2009), "The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction" (2013), "1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed" (2014; revised and updated 2021), "Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology" (2017), and "Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon" (2020), all written for the general public, and "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean (1994; 2009), "Amenhotep III: New Perspectives on His Reign" (1998), "Thutmose III: A New Biography" (2006), "Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean" (2010), "Ancient Empires" (2011), "The Ahhiyawa Texts" (2011), "Ramesses III: The Life and Times of Egypt's Last Hero" (2012), and "The Social Archaeology of the Levant" (2019), all intended for scholarly audiences. He has also published more than 100 articles and reviews in scholarly journals, books, and festschriften, and recently served for six years as the co-editor, with Christopher Rollston, of the Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research (BASOR). One of his lectures based on "1177 BC" has been viewed more than six million times on YouTube; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4&t=3084s.
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