Eric Meyers
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2,596 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2d ago
Eric Meyers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What he was doing was more a combination of engineering and treasure hunting.
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He dug trenches and shafts to locate walls and foundations.
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and believed that he had found parts of ancient fortifications, evidence of collapsed walls, and remains that may match the biblical account.
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But by the 1890s, archaeology was emerging as a science in its own right.
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Warren's successors stopped digging for things and started digging for context.
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Stratigraphy saw them carefully excavating layer by layer.
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the evidence they uncovered getting older and older as they dug further down.
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Fragments of pottery became the technique by which the remains at different layers were dated.
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And over time, Warren's Victorian trenches gave way to true scientific excavation.
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In 1953, an archaeologist called Kathleen Kenyon arrived on the scene.
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She was one of the world's leading archaeological methodologists.
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She came armed with the latest techniques and a new way of seeing the sight.
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Gone were the wide Victorian trenches and the hunt for spectacular walls.
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Instead, she laid out a precise grid of square excavation units, each separated by standing walls of earth left intact so she could read the site's vertical history.
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She and her team descended through the different eras of Jericho's past.
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Every inch deeper took them further back in time.
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The standing walls of Earth revealed the city's rise and fall.
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mudbrick walls, collapsed ramparts, layers where burning took place, the floors of houses, the debris of thousands of years of human life.
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And deep in the bowels of the earth, she found seven skulls.
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that revealed evidence of bizarre prehistoric rituals.
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