Eric Cline

20.

Yeah, it starts back in the Neolithic and goes right up through, well, it goes almost until Alexander the Great, when he marched by, it was probably abandoned.

But then the Romans, the Romans established one of their legionnaires camps right at the base of Megiddo, right, which is being excavated even today.

So in essence, on the site and just off of it, it's from Neolithic right through Romans.

So it's like Jericho, one of those sites that's just continually used again and again and again in that area of the world.

Exactly.

I mean, I always tell my students that to have a successful site in antiquity, you need food, you need water, and you need defense.

And Megiddo has all three, very much like Jericho.

And actually, as it grew over the years, it became even better for defense because you could see farther and farther away.

So when excavation started at the mound in 1903, it was 110 feet tall.

It's now about 70 feet tall because, as we'll talk about, Chicago took off the top couple of 20 feet or so.

But still, in order to get to the top of the mound to excavate, you have to walk up a 70-foot-tall mound first thing, 5 in the morning.

You know, let's get that heart racing and get those steps in.

Gosh.

Yes, yes.

Basically, John, and it's not quite clear which John.

It's not the Apostle John.

It's another John, and he goes into a cave and basically has a dream, and this is what is told to us in the book of Revelation.

By the way, it is singular.

There's no S. I noticed you were good with that.