Digging Up Armageddon
The Search for the Lost City of Solomon
1st Edition
Published on 17. March 2020
432 pages
978-0-691-20044-6 (ISBN)
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English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
Illustrations
51 b/w illus. 3 tables. 2 maps.
51 b/w illus. 3 tables. 2 maps
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978-0-691-20044-6 (9780691200446)
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Eric H. Cline is professor of classics and anthropology and director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington University. His many books include Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology and 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (both Princeton). He lives in Rockville, Maryland. Twitter @digkabri
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: "Welcome to Armageddon"
- Prologue "Have Found Solomon's Stables"
- Part One. 1920-1926
- Chapter I. "Please Accept My Resignation"
- Chapter II. "He Must Knock Off or You Will Bury Him"
- Chapter III. "A Fairly Sharp Rap on the Knuckles"
- Chapter IV. "We Have Already Three Distinct Levels"
- Part Two. 1927-1934
- Chapter V. "I Really Need a Bit of a Holiday"
- Chapter VI. "They Can Be Nothing Else than Stables"
- Chapter VII. "Admonitory but Merciful"
- Chapter VIII. "The Tapping of the Pickmen"
- Chapter IX. "The Most Sordid Document"
- Chapter X. "Either a Battle or an Earthquake"
- Part Three. 1935-1939
- Chapter XI. "A Rude Awakening"
- Chapter XII. "The Director Is Gone"
- Chapter XIII. "You Asked for the Sensational"
- Chapter XIV. "A Miserable Death Threat"
- Chapter XV. "The Stratigraphical Skeleton"
- Part Four. 1940-2020
- Chapter XVI. "Instructions Had Been Given to Protect This Property"
- Epilogue. "Certain Digging Areas Remain Incompletely Excavated"
- Cast of Characters: Chicago Expedition Staff and Spouses
- Year-by-Year List of Chicago Expedition Staff plus Major Events
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
