Amos Frumkin

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

References

  1. Jerusalem Tunnel Linked to Bible Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News September 11, 2003
  2. http://geography.huji.ac.il/personal/Frumkin/Frumkin.html
  3. Scientists Discover 8 New Species By ARON HELLER The Associated Press Thursday, June 1, 2006
  4. Coghlan, Andy (10 September 2003). "Radio-dating authenticates Biblical tunnel". New Scientist.
  5. 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.
  6. The Rise and Fall of the Dead Sea, Amos Frumkin and Yoel Elitzur, BAR 27:06, Nov/Dec 2001
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