1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed | Eric Cline

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  @carlhahn3851 · 4 years ago

  50 years ago I remember my Dad joking about how future archeologists would look at our ruins and think that Barby Dolls were fertility goddesses and TV sets were religious altars.

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  @brianlevor6295 · 4 years ago

  Wow. Dr. Cline was my professor for Greek History 18 years ago at George Washington University. It was one of the hardest classes I ever took. Dr. Cline offered me no quarter; either I learned a ton of history or I failed. I studied my ass off, got an A on the final, and earned the most difficult 'C' I'd ever receive. It is great watching him now and knowing that I was learning from one of the preeminent experts on this time period in the academic world.

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  @melissarainchild · 3 years ago

  He makes the old cultures come alive, sublime!

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  @brianadler2688 · 1 year ago

  I've followed Dr. Cline ever since I took a year long upper division seminar from Eric, and his wife Diane it Portland State University in 1990-91. His wife asked me to go with her to work on a dig at the Athenian Agora, but it just didn't work out. This class was probably the most demanding, but also the best history class I ever took! Thank you Dr. Cline!

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  @alquinn8576 · 5 years ago

  i love these old-time tweets he reads off those clay slabs

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  @wernerschroer6138 · 4 years ago

  The iron dagger in King Tut's tomb derives with high certainty from an iron meteorite. A recent study using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry determined that Tutankhamun’s dagger was made with iron containing nearly 11 percent nickel and traces of cobalt: a characteristic of extraterrestrial iron found in many of the iron meteorites that have rained down on Earth for billions of years.

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  @EliWCoyote · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4LRHJlijVU&amp;t=5095">1:24:55</a> &quot;Motel of the Mysteries&quot;!! &nbsp;I remember Reader&apos;s Digest did an excerpt from that story back in the 80&apos;s or so, and it really stuck with me...never expected somebody to bring it up! &nbsp;It was brilliant. &nbsp;They &quot;discovered&quot; that the &quot;ancient burial site&quot; (motel) was surrounded by outward-facing guardians to protect and defend the tomb, with names like &quot;Firebird&quot;, &quot;Falcon&quot; and so on... &nbsp;😂

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  @CareyTisdal · 3 years ago (edited)

  I read his book, and I wish I had had this narrative before I read it. I have worked on scientific literacy projects, and teaching storytelling is an underrated approach to helping people hang theories and evidence together. As much as I love methods, I think they may need to be a secondary priority in sharing STEM with the general public.

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  @eduardosturla · 4 years ago

  Cline is a rare academic, one that can make complicated themes understandable. At the same time make it fun, engaging and makes you want to investigate more.

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  @joeforeman3027 · 3 years ago

  Resilient factors:<br>-Interdependent economy<br>-interdependent cultures<br>-rise of literacy<br>-rise of skilled workmanship<br>-maturing ethical self-control

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  @badjujuforever · 2 years ago

  i could listen to these guys talk while I fall asleep every night

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  @SoulSoundMuisc · 3 years ago

  This was excellent. &nbsp;You can tell someone is a true master of their trade or area of expertise when they can explain the material so simply and elegantly. &nbsp;Bravo.

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