"Dr. Jesse Michael Millek (PhD University of Tubingen, 2017) is an ancient historian and archaeologist specializing in the history and cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 BCE). He is the author of Exchange, Destruction, and a Transitioning Society: Interregional Exchange in the Southern Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron I (Tubingen University Press, 2019), and has written numerous articles on the archaeology of destruction, the Sea Peoples and their effect on the Eastern Mediterranean, trade during the Late Bronze Age, Egyptian hegemony over the southern Levant, and what actually occurred in various regions ca. 1200 BCE based on a reanalysis of the archaeological and historical records. Millek has won several prizes for his research including the Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize from the W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research.

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