Lachish and Sennacharib - Starkey and Ussishkin
Profile of an Archaeologist: Professor David Ussishkin

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LandMinds Audio Podcast - Part I (40:50)
Click on the player below on the left to listen to a LandMinds interview with retired Tel Aviv University archaeologist David Ussishkin (video highlights coming soon).
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Professor Emeritus of Archaeology
ussishki@post.tau.ac.il
Education
B.A. - The Hebrew University, 1958 M.A. - The Hebrew University, 1962 Ph.D. - The Hebrew University, 1966 Ph.D. Dissertation: The Neo-Hittite Monuments, their Dating and Style
Academic Duties, Tel Aviv University
Selected Excavations and Surveys
Current Projects
The Megiddo Excavations
ussishki@post.tau.ac.il
Education
B.A. - The Hebrew University, 1958 M.A. - The Hebrew University, 1962 Ph.D. - The Hebrew University, 1966 Ph.D. Dissertation: The Neo-Hittite Monuments, their Dating and Style
Academic Duties, Tel Aviv University
1975-1978 | Head, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies |
1980-1984 | Director, The Institute of Archaeology |
1977-2004 | Editor, Tel Aviv, The Journal of the Institute of Archaeology |
1996-2006 | Incumbent, The Austria Chair in Archaeology of the Land of Israel in the Biblical Period |
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1960-1961 | Assistant to Director, 'Cave of the letters', the Judean Desert, expedition |
1961-1962 | Field superviser, Ein-Gedi, the Chalcolithic temple excavations |
1964-1965 | Field superviser, Massada excavations |
1967-1968 | Co-Director, Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet Kerak) excavations |
1968-1971 | Survey, the Iron Age necropolis at Silwan, Jerusalem |
1973-1994 | Director, |
1984 | Betar, the last stronghold of Bar-Kochba's revolt |
1990-1996 | Co-Director, |
Since 1992 | Co-Director, |
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The Megiddo Excavations
Enter the name for this tabbed section: The Conquest of Lachish by Sennacherib

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James Leslie Starkey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Leslie Starkey (3 January 1895 – 10 January 1938) was a noted British archaeologist of the ancient Near East and Palestine in the period before the Second World War. The chief excavator of the first archaeological expedition to the important site of Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir) from 1932, Starkey was robbed and killed by Arab bandits near Bayt Jibrin on a track leading from Bayt Jibrin to Hebron.[1] He is buried in Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
[Photo courtesy of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF)]







