Eric Cline

Clarence Fisher was the first director.

He gets fired after two years.

And then PLO Guy, British, he runs the dig from about 1927 to 1934.

Then he gets fired by Breasted.

And then Gordon Loud comes in.

And he runs the dig from 1935 to 1939.

And each of those directors found something substantial that they could hang their hat on.

So Fisher is when they figured out that they had that Shashank cartouche.

Then Guy is the one that claimed they had found Solomon's stables, which they are stables, I think, but they're probably Ahab or Omri.

They're probably, you know, 9th century rather than 10th century.

And then Gordon Loud is the one that found the famous ivories and the gold hoard that Megiddo was also known for.

So each of them has something that they can claim.

And overall,

The excavations were among the most scientific of the time.

They were cutting edge.

They were one of the first to use balloon photography.

They were the first to use Munsell color charts to describe the color of the soil.

which Breasted had learned about when he went to a dinner party and somebody from the art department said, hey, we've got these new things called Munsell color.

And Breasted's like, we could use that on the dig.

And then they eventually used a code book