Eric Meyers
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2,127 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Eric Meyers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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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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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