Matthew Adams Matthew Adams is Dorot Director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the Pennsylvania State University in 2007, specializing in Egyptology and Near Eastern Archaeology. He has more than 25 seasons of excavation experience at sites in Egypt and Israel. While he has broad interests in space and time throughout ...
BAR contributing editor Nathan Steinmeyer met with Adams to discuss his journey from volunteer to dig director in Twenty Years at Megiddo .
In 2016, team members of the Megiddo Expedition, led by co-directors Israel Finkelstein, Matthew Adams, and Mario Martin, uncovered a tomb, labeled “Tomb 50,” adjacent to a monumental Middle Bronze Age palace. The excavation and documentation of the tomb represents an enormously successful application of some of archaeology’s most innovative and fashionable techniques in digital ...
Israel Finkelstein (left) and Matthew Adams (right) at the Tel Megiddo excavation. Photo courtesy Matthew Adams. “This is a class, so you better come prepared,” said Matthew Adams, Director of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.
Matthew J. Adams explains the challenges of taking over the directorship of the Albright—including an unexpected complication that happened during his first month as director.
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