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This is Based on Tel Megiddo? I worked there for a summer in 2010!

Liz wrote: "This is Based on Tel Megiddo? I worked there for a summer in 2010!"

Man, I haven't been on this site in years. And yes - the same place! If you haven't read the book yet I would definitely recommend it - you will recognize parts of the Tel.

I worked there in the '06 season. If you are archaeologically inclined - I just had an article on the Bronze Age Collapse published: - it's based on the destruction level that was visible in Area M (which may have been closed by time you started work at Megiddo). Apologies for the vanity citation.

I was in Area H...Area M was already closed by the time that I came for the season in 2010, but I actually heard stories about how great it was. We learned about it at night when we had lectures in the Kibbutz. Good times! I was thinking about going back this summer, if I can swing it.

M was pretty great while it lasted, sadly we came down on what appeared to be a cemetery for children - one of the reasons why I think they probably closed it. I wish I had seen more of Area H - that and Area K seemed to better capture what living at Megiddo would have been like. Those of us in Area M were probably too busy harassing the folks in Area J.

Best historical fiction book I ever read.

This is one of the handful of books I have read that I can genuinely say has changed the way I think about the world, The comments on this thread explain why.
Before starting it I decided to check adverse comments to seek out its possible weaknesses, expecting vitriol from readers with more historical knowledge or religious conviction (either side maybe - I wanted to know). There was none that I could find. From that I think it fair to assume that this is an accurate historical account and a fair portrayal of the attitudes of the many faiths in this troubled part of the globe.
The only attack I found came from a feminist who thought the views were sexist, All I can say is that the writer appeared not to have read the whole book because in the final chapters it becomes clear that any sexism is attributable to Cullinane ( one of the characters who is clearly a creation of his time and culture) when the object of his affections is characterised as a very modern woman.
There was only one art of the book I skipped. The unflinching and dispassionate description of the methods used by the Spanish Inquisition was too much for me.
Utterly brilliant.

I read this at about the same age; I believe my copy was in the Reader's Digest Condensed Books! and it had illustrations too. It is a fascinating book, not the least because -- like many of Michener's ambitious works -- it takes you from the macro to the micro, across astonishing spans of history and time.

Colin wrote: "This is one of the handful of books I have read that I can genuinely say has changed the way I think about the world, The comments on this thread explain why.
Before starting it I decided to check ..."

Greetings from Lahore, Pakistan.

For exactly that -an adverse comment from an individual with 'religious conviction' - see my review.

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I friended you in anattempt to communicate. I wanted to find the link to Liz above. Every time I click on it, the page disappears. We are watching a documentary about Alexander, and thinking about how old cities get buried, which led me to look up The Source that I had read years ago. I saw just enough to see the title referred to the collapse of the Bronze Age. Be interested if you could reestablished the link for me.

"Israeli civlisation" = 40,000 genocided indigenous Gazans, infanticide on a scale never before seen and the destruction of the most famous ancient crossroads of the Near East. If that's 'civilisation', give me barbarism every time.

I read it when I was young too and was mesmerised. It formed my views on many things, including religion. I was thinking today that it's time to read it again