Amos Frumkin

Who is Amos Frumkin?

Amos Frumkin is an Israeli geologist.

Frumkin is a professor of geology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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. 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.