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Eric H Cline

@digkabri.bsky.social

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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

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 1h

Today’s tie features ancient Egypt, for no particular reason (not linked to either of today’s lectures, but I like the tie)

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 2d

It’s time for the tie with the miniature Lamassu(s)…

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 6d

Bitty, caught in the act of checking his calendar…

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 12d

Hah! Good one!

Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 13d

Cat in a box

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 14d

Doing Archaic Greece today, including the first Olympics…

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 14d

Official publication day is not until November 11 (but you can pre-order it now).

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 15d

Happy New Year! An unexpected box full of Love War and Diplomacy was waiting on the doorstep when I got home today.

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 15d

(Update: Ok, ok; IYKYK. It means I’m giving a major exam in one of my classes.)

Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 16d

New podcast on the Trojan War with Dan Snow on History Hit has just dropped. It's fun; take a listen: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hi...

Dan Snow's History Hit: Did the Trojan War Really Happen?

The Trojan War is one of the great foundational stories of Western literature - a tale of gods and heroes, betrayal and siege, immortalised by Homer in the Iliad. But was it mere myth, or did it sp...

podfollow.com

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 16d

So, most of you know by now what it means if I am wearing this tie…

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 16d

And…1177 BC will be translated into Indonesian, as its 21st translation.

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 18d

After days of traveling, it is good to have a few moments of calm in the morning, with a cup of coffee while relaxing in your favorite chair...

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 18d

Great day-long symposium at OU, discussing Walter Scheidel’s new book “What is Ancient History?” Great to see old friends and to meet new ones. Too bad I’m leaving before tomorrow’s game against Auburn…

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 20d

Oklahoma and Vermont added to list of states where I have given lectures; now up to 35. South Carolina to be added in a few weeks; delayed because of last year’s hurricane (Alabama also canceled then). Seems to be a big swathe of the Northwest where I haven’t lectured…must rectify that.

Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 21d

The second review of my forthcoming Amarna Letters book is out, from Publishers Weekly: "...a remarkable glimpse into deep history and a savvy examination of an academic discipline's evolution."

And just heard that 1177 BC will be translated into Indonesian -- that makes 21 foreign languages...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 21d

@digkabri.bsky.social’s new book Love, War, and Diplomacy is “a remarkable glimpse into deep history and a savvy examination of an academic discipline’s evolution” Read the @publisherswkly.bsky.social review:

Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed by Eric H Cline

Historian Cline (After 1177 B.C.) recounts in this illuminating study the 1887 discovery of a cache of cuneiform tablets that tu...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 23d

Teaching the Iron Age in Greek history today, so I thought I would wear my “writing” tie. Ironically, however, unless I am missing something, it does not appear to have the Greek alphabet on it!

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 26d

Hope you like it!

Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 26d

There are very few things quite like gazing upon your new book for the very first time. Years and years of studying and writing, of intensive toil, labor, and love, now brought to fruition with the help of a whole village. I am so pleased that this will be available exactly two months from today.

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 28d

Fighting the Trojan War today, in both classes as it happens.

Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 28d

Just received the welcome news that the paperwork has just been signed for the twentieth translation of 1177 BC, this time into Ukrainian. Not sure when it will be out, but looking forward to it!

Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Actually lecturing in detail about the Woolley/Mallowan excavations at Ur today, so I’m wearing another one of my “Standard” ties (I have three: one in polychrome, one in red, and one in black.)

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Sep 5

Love, War, and Diplomacy, the forthcoming book from @digkabri.bsky.social, showcases “impressive scholarship [that] illuminates the Bronze Age.” Read the full Kirkus review here:

LOVE, WAR, AND DIPLOMACY | Kirkus Reviews

Letters on clay offer a portal to a lost world.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · Sep 4

One sign that the new semester has begun: when you answer one email and three more pop up as you are doing so.

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