Eric Cline

Locked in, and then when the palace was destroyed around about 1177 or 1140, they died in there.

Now, I think Loud was incorrect.

There is a parallel from another site from the same time period up, not so far away, up in Syria.

And that one is obviously a tomb, a royal tomb.

And I think that this is not a treasury, but is a burial of, who knows, somebody from the palace who died.

And those two boys, I don't think they got trapped in there during the collapse.

I think they're buried in there.

It's a multi...

person burial, maybe multi-generational.

And we've got other tombs from Megiddo now that have been found recently where you can see there's, you know, eight, ten bodies in there.

So I think this is a family tomb, if you will, and that is not a camel tomb.

that is on top of the ivories, it is a donkey or something related, that kind of a species.

And we know, even in the early Bronze Age, that in the Levant, in Canaan, they are doing equid donkey burials.

where you put a guy or a woman in the burial, and then you sacrifice a donkey or some sort of equid in there.

I think that is what we've got here.

And indeed, I showed a picture of the so-called camel to a couple of friends who do archaeozoology, and they're like, that's not a camel.

Yeah, that's a donkey or something related.

So I think that Loud misinterpreted it,

And he was digging a tomb that was connected to the palace.

And you've got an animal burial in there.