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Mycenaeans Were There Before the Israelites

Excavating the Dan Tomb

By James D. Muhly

Dan II; A Chronicle of the Excavations and the Late Bronze Age “Mycenaean” Tomb Avraham Biram and Rachel Ben-Dov (Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College, Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, 2002) 248 pp., $48 (available from the publisher, 13 King David St., Jerusalem 94101, Israel) Nearly 20 years ago, BAR published an interview with Avraham Biran on “Twenty Years of Digging at Tel Dan” (July/August 1987). The interview features a wonderfully politically incorrect photo of Biran smoking a glorious cigar. At the time Biran was 77 years old, director of Hebrew Union College’s Nelson Glueck School of Archaeology in Jerusalem […]

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Footnotes

1.

See “ ‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR, March/April 1994.

2.

See Cemal Pulak, “Shipwreck!” Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 1999.

Endnotes

1.

V. Hankey, “The Aegean Pottery,’ in S. Ben-Arieh and G. Edelstein, eds. Akko Tombs Near the Persian Garden, Atiqot 12 (1977).

2.

I might also mention the new book by the German scholar Wolfgang Güntner, a study of all Mycenaean pictorial-style pottery, published as volume XII in the series of final reports on the excavations at Tiryns (Mainz 2000).