Eric H. Cline is currently Professor of Classics and Anthropology, as well as Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute, at George Washington University in Washington DC. He is an archaeologist and historian with a focus on the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, who received his undergraduate degree in classical archaeology from Dartmouth College; his M.A. in Near Eastern languages and literatures from Yale University; and his Ph.D. in ancient history from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an active field archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation and survey experience in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, and the United States, including ten seasons at Megiddo (biblical Armageddon) and another ten seasons at Tel Kabri, where he currently serves as co-director. He previously received grants from National Geographic, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Getty, and had a Fulbright grant to Greece while a graduate student. He is the author or co-author of more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and has written or edited more than twenty books, both solo and with colleagues. Among his best-known publications are 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press 2014; revised edition 2021) and After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Princeton University Press 2024). As part of his Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Fellowship, he will be at the University of Haifa, working on the third book in this trilogy. Additional information can be found at https://cnelc.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-h-cline.