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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The purpose of these strange macabre skulls has been debated by historians ever since.
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The purpose behind their creation may never be truly known.
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But they do serve as evidence of the human occupation of Jericho going back thousands of years.
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But when it came to the walls of Jericho from the biblical story,
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Kenyon's findings did not tally with the Bible's account.
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Kenyon did uncover massive fortifications in the middle bronze layers of the dig.
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These included a stone wall, a mudbrick superstructure, a burn layer, the debris of the wall's destruction, and evidence of a violent end.
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But then she deployed the most accurate dating technique of the day, ceramic typology.
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Nearby pottery remains were analyzed for their shape, surface treatment, and decoration, as well as for the composition of the material they were made of.
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Using this technique, she concluded that the destruction of Jericho's walls happened in roughly 1550 BCE, centuries before the biblical conquest.
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Her conclusion was that the Jericho of the time of Joshua was not a fortified city at all.
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The famous walls had fallen long before the Israelites arrived.
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This conclusion remains dominant among modern archaeologists even as techniques continue to improve.
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There was a walled city of Jericho.
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But it was destroyed before the biblical account.
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And so debate today centers not on if Jericho was destroyed, that much seems to be verifiable, but when the destruction occurred.
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By the time Joshua arrived,
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Was there even a walled city to besiege?
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The most widely accepted explanation today is that the Bible story is a cultural memory of a real ancient catastrophe.
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Jericho's great destruction most likely did happen and was so dramatic that it was remembered for generations.
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