Tel Megiddo
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Tel Megiddo is the site of the ancient city of Megiddo, the remains of which form a tell or archaeological mound, situated in northern Israel at the western edge of the Jezreel Valley. During the Bron
An aerial view of Tel Megiddo
Late Bronze Age city gate
Gate 2156, built by a proto-Israelite power or during the Omride dynasty (Late Iron Age IIA, c. 900–780 BCE).
The Assyrian period, when the site was called Magiddu, c. 732–609 BCE – plan and ruins
Eric H. Cline
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Eric H. Cline is an American author, historian, archaeologist, and professor of ancient history and archaeology at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he is a Professor of Clas
Tel Megiddo
…BCE. Since that time it would have remained uninhabited, preserving ruins pre-dating 586 BCE without settlements ever disturbing them. Archaeologist Eric Cline considers that Tel Megiddo came to an end later, around 350 BCE, during Achaemenid times. Then, the town of al-Lajjun, not to be confused with the…
Cline speaking at the 2014 National Book Festival
Excavating at Megiddo