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Eric H. Cline

3 years

"I'll take Historical Nonfiction for $1,600..." 1177 B.C. was featured on Jeopardy last night (Friday, 7/23). I can now retire happy. I mean, what's left to do?

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Eric H. Cline

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10 months

Proofs have arrived. I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend. :-)

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8 months

So very pleased to officially announce that my sequel "After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations" as well as "1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed" (drawn by the fabulous Glynnis Fawkes) will both be published by Princeton University Press 1/2

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4 months

Look what has arrived!! Almost exactly ten years later, we have "After 1177 BC"...Woohoo!!

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9 months

To be honest, I think far more often about the Bronze Age than I do about the Roman Empire…

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1 year

Hooray! “After 1177 BC,” complete with a cover and a descriptive overview of the contents, is on the PUP website! Still 11 months away, because of the lengthy production process, but hopefully the time will fly by… .

After 1177 B.C.

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why...

press.princeton.edu

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2 years

Look at what has just arrived, by Carolina López-Ruiz! Looking forward to reading it!

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6 months

Very pleased, and frankly quite relieved, that the first review to appear of “After 1177 BC” is a positive one.

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Eric H. Cline

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9 months

So, Pharaoh dropped yesterday. Very pleased and honored to have worked with the talented CA Sofia team as a historical consultant on it. Always wanted to help out on a video game and now it has come to pass…Lots of fun and a great game! @totalwar @qalice

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10 months

Lecturing today on Mesopotamia, so wearing my standard tie (and making my standard joke).

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8 months

Congratulations to Amanda Podany ( @ahpod ), whose wonderful book just won the ASOR “Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award.” #ASOR2023

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3 years

borrowed from a friend...because:

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2 years

6,000,000 views. Time to retire…

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3 months

Both books will be officially published at 12:01 am on 16 April...and it feels like history is repeating itself. It's hard to celebrate with everything going on in the world right now...Say hello to a stranger and engage in random acts of kindness if you have the chance, ok?

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1 year

The eagle has flown. She waited for Shabbat to be over. RIP @DianeHCline 11 May 1961 - 8 July 2023 May her memory be a blessing.

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4 years

Masks have arrived! Look how stylish we will be!

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11 months

Looks like "After 1177 BC" is now available for pre-order on Amazon, well ahead of its May 7th, 2024, release date. Be the first on your street to buy it!

After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Turning Points in Ancient History, 12)

www.amazon.com

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5 months

Advance copies of the graphic version have arrived!! It looks amazing!! Kudos to the peerless @glynnisfawkes !!

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10 months

Troy and the Trojan War lecture in class today…

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8 months

It’s classical archaeology day in the Intro class, so I thought it would be a capital idea to wear this tie…

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Eric H. Cline

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2 months

We should’ve been celebrating your 63rd birthday today. 😥Miss you.

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Eric H. Cline

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1 year

So, "After 1177 BC" has just been copyedited and sent to production. Everyone now needs to stop publishing anything relevant until after the book comes out, so that it’s not already out of date when it appears next Spring…!

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4 months

Woke up this morning to a starred review in PW for After 1177 BC: "Cline distills an immense amount of material into a highly readable narrative that in its conclusion draws startling parallels with contemporary climate change. It's a dizzying feat of scholarship." Woohoo!!

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1 year

My two cents on why the article published by Manning et al. in Nature today is important (warning: long thread ahead): First and foremost, the new research adds to our knowledge about the Late Bronze Age Collapse, including in fresh ways. /1

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3 months

A delightful and unexpected surprise delivery late on a Friday afternoon...advance copies of both books! :-) @PrincetonUPress @lessonsofwon @christiehenry @glynnisfawkes

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4 years

Ok, so this struck me as funny. Randomly looked on Amazon, as I’m reading over the proofs for the revised/updated version of 1177 BC, coming out in Feb 2021, and what do I see? The original version has now received 1,177 ratings and some bookseller has it listed at $11.77....

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Eric H. Cline

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24 days

"After 1177 BC" has been named by Barnes and Noble as one of their "Best Books of 2024 (So Far)." It's listed as one of "Nine Histories from Today's Heavy Hitters"...and I'm in the company of Doris Kearns Goodwin, Fareed Zaharia, and Erik Larson, among others. Woohoo!

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

2 years

Wearing the other Lamassu tie today, as we continue our discussions of the Neo-Assyrians…

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6 months

Woohoo!! Starred review #2 for "After 1177 BC"...!! Very pleased!!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

@PrincetonUPress

6 months

Another *starred* early review for @digkabri ’s After 1177 B.C.! @KirkusReviews calls the book: “Brilliant. . . . A superb work to interest history buffs for every period.” Read the full starred review here:

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Eric H. Cline

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2 years

better images...

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2 years

Neo-Assyrian Day…

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Eric H. Cline

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1 year

Covering Mesopotamia today in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations class, so going with an old standard!

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8 months

Lecturing on the Neolithic today, but since I don’t have a specific Neolithic tie (who does, really?), I have opted for another Egyptian-themed tie…

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8 months

Bronze Age Knossos and Santorini today.

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9 months

The adventure begins. I’m off to Athens to Brighten the Dark Ages…wish me luck! And look what arrived five minutes before I left the house! @EmilyRCWilson

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9 months

Parthenon frieze tie for the final night dinner…

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Eric H. Cline

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6 months

Looks like Total War: Pharaoh is now adding in a Sea Peoples component to the game...

Total War

@totalwar

6 months

Be the herald of the Collapse, and lead your people into a new world... High Tide - the free update for Total War: PHARAOH - arrives January 25th! 🌊 Find out more:

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Eric H. Cline

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4 years

Five million views, as of this afternoon (2 August 2020). Lots of people at home with nothing else to do, apparently.

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Eric H. Cline

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4 months

So, a box of advance copies of the graphic version arrived and I handed Joshua one of them, at which point he said “OK, so I guess I’ll finally read 1177 BC, but only because it has pretty pictures now.”

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@digkabri

4 years

The Good news: after having to sit on the news for literally weeks, I am pleased to be able to announce that I have received a Getty Scholars residential fellowship for the Fall, at the Getty Villa. My project is to work on the “After 1177” book sequel.

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

10 months

Today’s lecture is on the history of archaeology, so I thought the Rosetta Stone tie might be appropriate.

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

2 years

First day and first tie of the semester! Intro to Archaeology and History of the Ancient Near East and Egypt coming up!

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

6 months

It’s a Colby “Sea Peoples Tour” sweatshirt kind of day… #collectorsitem

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@digkabri

5 months

Recording the Preface and Acknowledgements for the audio version of “After 1177 BC” in the recording studio at GW

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

10 months

Obituary for Diane on the front page of the GW Hatchet today, the student newspaper:

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

4 years

A surprise package arrived today, containing a set of four glasses, courtesy of Princeton University Press, each engraved with the covers of the four books that I have published with them...Sweet! So touched! Thanks, @robtempio @christiehenry @PrincetonUPress @lessonsofwon

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2 months

This is pretty funny; the Top 10 in History of Civilization & Culture on Amazon are currently: Cline, Harari, Cline, Cline, Harari, Cline, Cline, Cline, Harari, Cortes?? 🤯🤯🤯

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

3 months

Woke up this morning to a great review of “After 1177 BC” in the Wall Street Journal: “expert, ingenious and endlessly fascinating…First in “1177 B.C.” and now in “After 1177 B.C.,” Mr. Cline has rewritten our understanding of a distant but resonant age.” Sweet! 1/2

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Eric H. Cline

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10 months

Lamassu tie today…

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10 months

First day of Intro to Archaeology for the semester…

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2 months

So this may have happened yesterday afternoon...

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7 months

The Sea Peoples made it into XKCD this morning: (h/t Stephen Savage, Isaac Morrison, Hannah Davis)

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

7 months

New recreation of old Kabri wine by a local friend, who reverse-engineered and made it himself using the list of probable ingredients in our open access publication of ten years ago and gave me several bottles and the chalice cup the other day, in time for Thanksgiving.

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Eric H. Cline

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2 years

Happy Hannakat!!

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Eric H. Cline

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9 months

One of my favorite, and more colorful, ties.

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Eric H. Cline

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2 months

My first-ever book review in the Times Literary Supplement is now out in this week's issue. :-) Grateful thanks to @wmarybeard for asking me to review the two-volume set of The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek, edited by John Killen. 1/2

What new translations of Linear B reveal about a civilization

A little more than seventy years ago, on the evening of July 1, 1952, the BBC radio audience heard a startling declaration by Michael Ventris, a young

www.the-tls.co.uk

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

4 years

Rosemary Joyce has resigned in protest from the Cultural Property Advisory Committee. Good for her. The rest of the committee should follow her lead, in protest of this president's actions and his recent threats to cultural heritage that belongs to the entire world.

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Eric H. Cline

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1 month

Just learned that "After 1177 BC: The Survival of Civilizations" will be translated into Arabic. Other forthcoming translations so far include (in alphabetical order): Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, and Turkish.

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

8 months

This is pretty cool: it’s the cover of the conference program.

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

7 months

P.S. I am now also allowed to say that foreign translation rights for “After 1177 BC” have already been signed for editions to appear in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, and Chinese (Simplified) to date. Stay tuned for (hopefully) other languages as well…

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

3 years

It’s Groundhog Day and 1177 BC has just been published again, this time in a revised and updated edition. Available now in paperback, kindle, and audio versions. Hope you like it!

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Eric H. Cline

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4 years

Welcome to Armageddon: Meet the city behind the biblical story

Reference article: Facts about Armageddon, the ancient city otherwise known as Megiddo.

www.livescience.com

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Eric H. Cline

@digkabri

10 months

Lecture on ancient Egypt today. Posting after the fact…

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2 months

That time when you had no idea that a documentary on the Sea Peoples for which you were filmed during the pandemic appeared at least a year ago until you accidentally found it posted on YouTube while searching for something completely different. 1/2

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@digkabri

4 years

Should I send Trump and Jared a copy of "1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed" now? Or should I just direct them to the lecture posted on YouTube?

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@digkabri

1 year

"After 1177 BC" book manuscript and all accompanying materials just sent to the Press for copyediting and then production. We'll see it in a year! @PrincetonUPress @christiehenry @PrincetonAudio @lessonsofwon

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3 years

Just went over 100,000 words in the first draft of the "After 1177" manuscript, so time to celebrate, but I'm not close to being done writing. Gonna have to do some severe pruning to get it down to a manageable length once I've got all of the details in to my satisfaction...

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6 months

Ok, we have Sea Turtles. We have Sea Urchins. So where are the $&@“#%€ actual Sea Peoples??

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3 months

Second midterm exam in Aegean Bronze Age class today!

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2 years

Don’t want to jinx this but getting ready to send penultimate draft of the sequel book manuscript, After 1177, to my editor for comments and feedback on Wednesday, after the July 4th weekend (and only one year beyond the originally scheduled deadline, which is a miracle). /1

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3 years

My contribution to the Bernie meme going around...

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3 years

Vaccinated — first shot. Now waiting 15 minutes for possible side effects. Suddenly craving Microsoft stock...

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7 months

New dad joke: What do you call it when you try to memorize the Hebrew Bible by sleeping with a copy of it under your pillow? Learning by osmoses. Thank you; I’ll see myself out.

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Eric H. Cline

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5 years

Today marks a first in my teaching career. Wore not one but two ties in the same day. The Egyptian one was for the Intro to Archaeology class where we were doing Egypt and the Royal Standard of Ur one was for the Ancient Mediterranean Civ class where we were doing Mesopotamia. 😎

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4 months

Quoted in Bloomberg Opinion this morning: (behind a paywall) "“Are we Phoenicians or Mycenaeans?,” Cline asked me rhetorically: “Will we adapt or disappear?” And all I thought to myself was: I’d so much rather just not collapse at all."

Is the World Close to Collapse? Ask the Bronze Age People

Scholars hear worrying historical echoes in the stresses building up in the US, and the global shocks of war, migration, climate, disease and famine.

www.bloomberg.com

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3 years

Was just recognized, and identified specifically by name and book title (1177 BC), in the supermarket checkout line by the young man ahead of me. First time that's ever happened. :-) So, I celebrated by washing the car for the first time in 15 months.

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3 months

Just fyi: Two podcasts and a lecture featuring me talking about either After 1177 BC or 1177 BC and After have appeared recently, which may be of interest for those of you who wish to listen. I list them separately below: 1/4

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2 months

Does this qualify as a straight flush? (asking for a friend...)

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2 years

Cuneiform day.

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2 years

Neo-Babylonians today…

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3 years

A good ending to an otherwise crazy week. PUP sent me via Priority mail a copy of the revised edition of 1177 BC. Available to all in three weeks. Thank you @robtempio @MattRohal @christiehenry and everyone else at @PrincetonUPress !

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4 months

Very pleased to have "After 1177 BC" included in this list of five books "that make history exciting":

5 Books That Make History Exciting | Kirkus Reviews

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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1 year

Found this tie in my closet, still in its plastic wrapping. I vaguely remember buying it at the Nat Geo King Tut Immersive Experience, but it is certainly also possible that they are breeding in my closet…

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2 months

This is either a very delayed April Fool's piece or else a very exciting development, with promises for what may lie ahead as other scrolls are deciphered. Can anyone weigh in on the accuracy of this report?

Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash

Newly deciphered passages outline Greek philosopher’s burial place and describe critique of slave musician

www.theguardian.com

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4 months

First midterm exam in Aegean Bronze Age class today.

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1 year

An important new book of collected conference papers on Collapse, just released today, with contributions by Joseph Tainter, Peter Turchin, Luke Kemp, John Haldon, Walter Scheidel, myself, and many others:

How Worlds Collapse

www.amazon.com

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3 years

Apparently the Throughline episode about the Bronze Age Collapse aired on NPR across the country just now. Didn't even know it was on, until I began getting emails. Just checked and we have an "NPR bump" within the Archaeology category for the updated version on Amazon now...

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2 years

We hold to strong traditions in this household…

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1 year

"All speculation as to its origin and its causes...I leave to other writers. I shall simply set down its nature, and explain the symptoms... This I can the better do, as I had the disease myself, and watched its operation in the case of others" (Thuc. 2.48.3).

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6 months

I’m not at the AIAs in person this year, but apparently I am there in spirit. Check out the “Cline corner” (as they are calling it) at Princeton’s booth in the book display area.

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1 year

Today’s tie brought to you by the Neo-Assyrians and the sounds “lama” and “su” — gallavanting through the first millennium BCE today…

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2 months

My brief piece on "Lessons Learned," based on some of the conclusions from "After 1177 BC," has just appeared in ANE Today. Click on the link if interested.

Resilience and Rebirth: Lessons Learned from the Aftermath of the Late Bronze Age Collapse

Following the Late Bronze Age Collapse, different societies followed separate paths to recovery, while some didn’t recover at all. Do their examples hold any lessons for us today?

www.asor.org

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5 years

Dear Dr. Cline, My dad and I listened to your course on beginner archaeology through the Great Courses. I really liked and it even inspired me to do a booth on archaeology at my schools Science Fair. Thank you for inspiring me to be an archaeologist. #nowicanretire #myjobisdone

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8 months

“The Complexity of Civilization” symposium (l. to r.): Kyle Harper (“The Fate of Rome“); Charles Mann (“1491”); Eric Cline (“1177 BC”)