Eric Cline
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We've got E.A.
Wallace Budge, the Egyptologist.
He did all sorts of things, but he was primarily an Egyptologist and was not particularly liked by his colleagues.
Let's just leave it at that.
So Budge was on the one hand.
On the other, you have Sase, Archibald Henry Sase, best known for his work on the Hittites.
And he is a professor of Assyriology at Oxford.
So they are the two British scholars that try their hand at deciphering all of these with mixed results, shall we say.
Seyss in particular.
Seyss was looking for... Yes, you're quite merciless with poor Seyss.
Oh, I know.
I was harsh on him.
He kept looking for biblical figures.
He thought he saw Solomon.
He thought he saw David.
He didn't see any of those, but he did see Jerusalem.
Pretty much, yes.
So he was known for acquiring objects any way he could and shipping them back to the British Museum with the approval of the trustees.
So, yes, the Amara letters are one good example.
Couldn't happen today, Eric.