Eric H. Cline facts for kids
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Eric H. Cline
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Cline speaking at the 2014 National Book Festival
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| Born | September 1, 1960 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College; Yale University; University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | Excavations and field work at Tel Megiddo and Tel Kabri |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Archaeology |
| Institutions | George Washington University |
Eric H. Cline, born on September 1, 1960, is an American expert in ancient history and archaeology. He is a professor at The George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C.. Professor Cline teaches about ancient civilizations and leads the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute. He also helps students who are studying archaeology. From 2014 to 2020, he helped edit a major archaeology magazine called the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
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Learning and Education
Eric Cline studied Classical Archaeology at Dartmouth College, earning his first degree in 1982. He then went to Yale University and received a master's degree in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in 1984.
In 1989, he received a special scholarship called a Fulbright scholarship to study in Greece. He earned his Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991.
He has also served on the boards of important groups like the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Schools of Oriental Research. These groups help support archaeology and research.
Exploring Ancient Sites
Eric Cline is an active archaeologist who works in the field. This means he spends a lot of time digging at ancient sites. He has worked for over 30 seasons in places like Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, and the United States.
He spent ten seasons at a famous site in Israel called Megiddo. This place is also known as biblical Armageddon. He used to be a co-director of the excavations there.
Since 2005, he has been a co-director of new excavations at Tel Kabri in Israel. His team has made exciting discoveries there. One of their finds was the oldest wine cellar ever found in the Near East.
Awards and Special Honors
Eric Cline has received many awards for his work and books. In 2014, his book was considered for a Pulitzer Prize. He has won awards for his books six times.
He won the "Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award" from the American Schools of Oriental Research twice (in 2014 and 2018). He also won the Biblical Archaeology Society's "Best Popular Book on Archaeology" Award three times (in 2001, 2009, and 2011). A book he helped edit won the G. Ernest Wright Award in 2019.
Professor Cline has also won awards for his teaching. These include the national "Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching" Award from the Archaeological Institute of America (2005). He also won the GWU "Morton Bender Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching" Award (2004).
He has received the two highest awards given at GWU for teaching and research. These are the "Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Award for Teaching Excellence" (2012) and the "Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Award for Faculty Scholarship" (2011). He is the first professor at GWU to win both of these important awards. In 2024, he received the GWU OVPR Distinguished Career Award.
In May 2015, he received an honorary doctorate degree from Muhlenberg College. In July 2015, he was named an NEH Public Scholar. This award helped him write his book Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon, which was published in March 2020. In 2018, he became an honorary member of the first Archaeology fraternity, Delta Iota Gamma ("DIG"). He was also named a Getty Scholar for the 2020–21 school year.
Books by Eric Cline
Eric Cline has written or edited more than 20 books. Many of his books have been translated into 19 different languages. Some of his books include:
- Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean (1994)
- 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)
- The Ancient Egyptian World (2005), written with Jill Rubalcaba
- From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible (2007)
- Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (2009)
- The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (2010)
- Digging for Troy: From Homer to Hisarlik (2011), written with Jill Rubalcaba
- The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction (2013)
- Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology (2017)
- Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon (2020)
- Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works (2020)
- 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, revised and updated edition (2021); first edition (2014)
- 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (2024), co-authored with Glynnis Fawkes
- After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (2024)
Television Shows
Professor Cline has appeared in many television documentaries. These shows have been on channels like ABC News, the National Geographic Channel, the Discovery Channel, the BBC, PBS, and the History Channel.
Some of the documentaries he has been in include:
- Back to the Beginning with Christiane Amanpour (ABC News)
- King Solomon's Mines (National Geographic Channel)
- Biblical Plagues (National Geographic Channel)
- Jerusalem: Center of the World (PBS)
- Countdown to Armageddon (History Channel)
- Mysteries/Science of the Bible (National Geographic Channel)
- Secrets of the Aegean Apocalypse (Mystery of the Sea Peoples) (History Channel)
- Is It Real: Atlantis (National Geographic Channel)
- The Truth of Troy (BBC)
- Joshua and the Battle of Jericho (Discovery Channel)
- Lost Cities of the Trojans (PBS)
