Archaeology, Nation, and Race is an essential book, not only for students of archaeology and its neighboring fields, but also for the broader critically thinking public. In the form of a sharp and lively dialogue between two leading scholars, the book compares contemporary Greece with modern Israel - two archetypal and decisive cases where archaeology lies at the heart of the modern national imagination - highlighting aspects that are often silenced by the dominant institutional discourse. Through the exploration of themes such as the colonial origins of national archaeologies, the cryptocolonization of the two countries and their archaeologies, the role of archaeology as a process of purging, and the racialization of the archaeological and material heritage of Greece and Israel, the two authors conclude with the realization of an urgent need for decolonization and for forging alliances with subjugated communities everywhere and with new political movements. (From the book's back cover presentation)