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Eric Cline

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The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

I'm like, actually, it is.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

Come on, I'll show you it.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

So Megiddo is Armageddon.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

And our t-shirts from each season on the back, they said, I survived Armageddon.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

Yes, even today, still.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

I mean, I...

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

The Renewed Excavations, as they're called, which are a consortium headed by Tel Aviv University, they started in 1992.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

They really got started in 1994, and that's when I joined.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

And then after 20 years, I left the project in 2014, but it's still going today.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

So they are still excavating every other summer, usually odd-numbered summers.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

But there is still lots of information coming out of the ground, and indeed, more so now than ever before, because they're using remote sensing, exact life sciences, radiocarbon, DNA.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

I mean, you name it, they're throwing all the new high-tech stuff out it.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

So the excavations at Megiddo are getting more and more and more interesting, in part because there's so much there.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

I mean, there are 20 cities, one on top of another.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

Wow.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

covering 5,000 years of history.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

That's only nine.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

Only nine?

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

Only nine.

The Ancients
The Real Armageddon

This is at least 20.