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Amos Frumkin

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Amos Frumkin is an Israeli geologist.1 Amos Frumkin (עמוס פרומקין ) (1953 ) is a professor of geology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .2 Amos 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 ." His expertise is the geology of caves. In 2003, Frumkin led a team that radiocarbon-dated Hezekiah's Tunnel . And 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.3

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