Dr. Eran Arie is a senior lecturer at the Department of Cultural Heritage, and the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa. He received his PhD in archaeology from Tel Aviv University in 2012 and conducted his post-doctoral studies at the University of Haifa from 2013 to 2014. He was the curator of Iron Age and Persian Period in The Israel Museum, Jerusalem from 2013 to 2020, and directed and curated Hecht Museum, University of Haifa during 2021. At the same time, he taught at The Martin (Szusz) Department of the Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University from 2015 to 2021.

He investigated social processes in the Jezreel Valley from the end of the Late Bronze Age to the formation of the monarchy in his PhD, and later dealt with the archaeological and historical background of the Phoenician settlement in the northern littoral of Israel, and with their relations with the kingdom of Israel during the 9th-8th centuries BCE. His current research focuses on the publication of Nahman Avigad’s forgotten excavations at the Persian Period Phoenician temple at Makmish (Tel Michal) and the preparation of a vast corpus of Persian Period Cypriot statuary uncovered in the southern Levant.

 E-mail: earie@univ.haifa.ac.il