Eric Cline

Eric Cline is a scholar and award-winning teacher specializing in international trade and diplomacy in the ancient world. His primary fields of study are the military history of the Mediterranean world from antiquity to present and the international connections between Greece, Egypt, and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age (1700-1100 BCE). Professor Cline is an experienced field archaeologist, with 25 seasons of excavation and survey to his credit since 1980. He has worked in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States, including seven seasons at the site of Megiddo (biblical Armageddon) in Israel, where he is currently the Associate Director (USA). He is also Co-Director of the new series of archaeological excavations at the site of Tel Kabri, also located in Israel. (Complete C.V.)

Selected Publications

From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2007.

Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.

The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean. B.A.R. International Series 591. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1994.

Amenhotep III: Perspectives on his Reign. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Co-edited with David O'Connor.

The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Symposium 18-20 April 1997. Aegaeum 18. Liege: Université de Liège, 1998. Co-edited with Diane Harris Cline.

Courses Taught

Hist 107: History of Egypt and the Ancient Near East
Hist 108: History of Ancient Israel
Hist 109: History of Greece
Hist 110: History of Rome

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1991.