Eric H Cline
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Eric H Cline
@digkabri.bsky.social

Archaeologist, ancient historian, author of 1177 BC, After 1177 BC, Three Stones Make a Wall, and other books

https://cnelc.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-h-cline

Eric H. Cline is an American author, historian, archaeologist, and professor of ancient history and archaeology at The George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C., where he is Professor of Classics and Anthropology and the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, as well as Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute. He is also the advisor for the undergraduate archaeology majors, for which he was awarded the GWU Award for "Excellence in Undergraduate Departmental Advising" (2006). Cline served as co-editor of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research along with Christopher Rollston from 2014 to 2020. .. more

History 58%
Art 14%

How I feel upon waking up and realizing that I have no commitments today and can spend the entire day writing for the first time in weeks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0...
Hooray!
Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk
YouTube video by Nerd Fest UK
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Congratulations to @digkabri.bsky.social! @biblicalarchaeology.org has named his book After 1177 B.C. the winner of their Publication Award in the Best Popular Book on Archaeology category. Explore this "engaging...[and] highly accessible" title as well as the full list of winners: hubs.ly/Q03VrYQb0

I’m done now too. Dismissed before even before chosen as a potential juror — ran out of needed seats before they reached my number. 😎👍

And now? Jury duty today (aka turning on a dime from antiquity to the present). Good thing I was just teaching about the origins of democracy in my Ancient Greece class last week…

Now I know for sure that #asor25 is over and I’m home again.

Thanks! (though do note that I’m an archaeologist, not a paleontologist— I don’t study dinosaurs or fossils)

I just bid on this fabulous piece of art by Lilah Rogel (@lrartcarchive) #asor25

I am ready for the ASOR Gala dinner tonight. (The invitation said “Black tie optional” but it didn’t say anything about Phoenician ties…)
#asor25

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Translation update: just received word that “Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters…” will be translated into Czech; hopefully this will be the first of many such translations! 😎👍

Second full day of the ASOR meetings. Time for the cat tie!

GWU is well represented at the 2025 ASOR meetings by faculty, current students, and alumni (missing a few others, but most are pictured here).

Hope you like them both!

Honored to be in the company of so many great scholars, both awardees and honorary mentions, including Joel Burnett, James McGrath, Angela Roskop Erisman, Timothy Hogue, and Jodi Magness. Congratulations to all!

The full list can be found at www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archae...
BAS 2025 Publication Awards Winners
Announcing the winners of the 2025 BAS Publication Awards. This bi-annual awards recognizes the best new research over the last two years.
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Very pleased to learn that "After 1177 BC: The Survival of Civilizations" has been chosen to receive a Biblical Archaeology Society 2025 Publication Award for "Best Popular Book on Archaeology" (for books published during 2023 and 2024).

It is amusing, worthy of an April 1st posting, just as long as the mainstream media aren't taken in and begin writing to me about it... :-)

The errors in the article are too many to easily enumerate without a lengthy post, especially the fact that there is no bilingual bronze tablet from the Uluburun wreck…Nor am I at the University of Cincinnati...nor am I (or was I) the head of a team doing anything related to the Uluburun shipwreck.

morningoverview.com/archaeologis...
Absolutely crazy article making the rounds this morning. Must have been created via AI, because there are so many things wrong with it, including that I was never interviewed for it and never uttered the quote that is attributed to me towards the end.
Archaeologists crack the mystery of a puzzling find – Morning Overview
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Today’s tie also has a subtle motif. This one is from the University Museum’s gift shop, at the University of Pennsylvania.