Tristan Hughes

We talked about Schliemann as well in our Trojan War chat, and him labeling it as Priam's treasure or the mask of Agamemnon.

Just that, because you're so invested in it, that desire to label something you find is linked to what you know in the Bible.

So Eric, is it the beginning then of the 20th century that...

I don't even want to say proper excavations, but official excavations begin at the site of Megiddo.

They know where Megiddo is already.

Then that's when excavations begin.

Well, let's start with the first one.

Let's start with 1903 then.

It's really interesting.

And what you're also mentioning there, going back to Schumacher, so finding Jeroboam, mention of Jeroboam.

So he's a king of the Northern Kingdom, just to clarify.

But the Shoshenk, that Egyptian pharaoh, I think he's of the 22nd dynasty, or something like that, isn't he?

With the silver coffin, which survives, beautiful silver coffins.

So you've got those things and obviously Breasted.

That Egyptian link only comes to light when they are making their dig house, the link to Allenby, the British general as well.

So yeah, let's take it away.

So that excavation begins looking for, yes, the Solomon link is there, but what do we know about these excavations?

How long do they go on?

But the thing I wanted to ask there is that late Bronze Age, before the collapse, if we think about the Mycenaeans and the palatial centres, it seems also with Megiddo as well.

There seems to have been someone at the top in the late Bronze Age living in a palace, probably with archives.