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The Battles of Armageddon
Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age

Eric H. Cline

Winner: Biblical Archaeology Society's 2001 Best Popular Book on Archaeology

One site. Thirty battles over four thousand years. Egyptians, Crusaders, Mongols, Israelis

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About the Book

Apocalypse. Judgment Day. The End Time. Armageddon. Students of the Bible know it as the place where the cataclysmic battle between the forces of good and evil will unfold. But Armageddon is a real place—Har Megiddo—and it has seen more fighting and bloodshed than any other spot on earth.

Egyptians, Israelites, Greeks, Moslems, Crusaders, Mongols, British, Germans, Arabs, and Israelis have all fought and died here. Their leaders' names echo in history: Thutmose III, Deborah, Gideon, Saul and Jonathan, Jezebel, Saladin, Napoleon, and Allenby, to name but the most famous. Battles at Megiddo and in the Jezreel Valley have determined the course of civilization. No wonder that the author of Revelation believed Armageddon, the penultimate battle between good and evil, would also take place here.

Eric H. Cline is Assistant Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology, George Washington University.

Visit Eric Cline's website at http://home.gwu.edu/~ehcline/.