Amos Frumkin
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Amos Frumkin is an Israeli geologist.
Frumkin (עמוס פרומקין ) (1953 ) is a professor of geology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]
Frumkin was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1953. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on "The karst system of the Mount Sdom salt diapir."[2] His expertise is the geology of caves.[3] In 2003, Frumkin led a team that radiocarbon-dated Siloam Tunnel.[4] He is the author of the generally accepted explanation of how a tunnel dug by two teams working from opposite ends was engineered by the ancient Israelites before the development of trigonometry.[5]
Published works
- The Rise and Fall of the Dead Sea[6]
- Frumkin, Amos and Shimron, Aryeh, Tunnel engineering in the Iron Age: Geoarchaeology of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 33, no. 2, February 2006, Pages 227-237.
References
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- ↑ http://geography.huji.ac.il/personal/Frumkin/Frumkin.html
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- ↑ Frumkin, Amos and Shimron, Aryeh, Tunnel engineering in the Iron Age: Geoarchaeology of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 33, no. 2, February 2006, Pages 227-237.
- ↑ The Rise and Fall of the Dead Sea, Amos Frumkin and Yoel Elitzur, BAR 27:06, Nov/Dec 2001
