Eric Meyers
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2,127 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
Eric Meyers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Warren was not primarily an archaeologist, he was a Royal Engineers officer, whose early work included surveying Gibraltar's fortifications.
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He developed a reputation for precision surveying, engineering skill, and topographical mapping.
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Between eighteen sixty seven and eighteen seventy, he carried out the first systematic explorations of the Temple Mount and the topography of ancient Jerusalem.
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At the time, it was this work that made Warren famous.
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His work at Jericho was a mere brief exploratory visit.
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In the 1880s, he would become the Commissioner of Police in London and lead the unsuccessful investigation into Jack the Ripper.
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But people have questioned the methods he used in both of these jobs.
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We may be able to thank him for finding Jericho.
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But even calling Warren an archaeologist is generous by later standards.
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This isn't a problem unique to him.
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In the 1860s, archaeology barely existed as a science.
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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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