Eric Cline

And their books are, to some degree, more important than anything published by the first two directors.

Yeah.

Absolutely amazing.

So the stories behind it.

I went to write up the archaeology of Megiddo, and I went into the archives at Chicago and found all of their personal letters and archives, journals, diaries, sometimes saying,

make sure this doesn't see the light of day.

You know, this is personal.

I'm like, yeah, too late.

And David Yushishkin, one of the co-directors at Megiddo, when I was there, he was, I then learned, writing a book on the archaeology, the stratigraphy of Megiddo, which has come out since.

It's really good.

And so I thought, we don't need two books that do the same thing.

Let me tell the story behind the story.

Let me tell you about the archaeologists

who excavated.

And that, I thought, is really interesting.

It's not for everyone, but if you're interested in learning how archaeology worked, especially in colonial British Mandate Palestine and what life was like for them, this is the book for you because I've got all, pardon the pun, I have all the dirt on what happened at that excavation.

So lots of fun.

Yes.

I'm not sure I would say thousands, maybe thousands, certainly hundreds.

Okay.