1. Beno Rothenberg was an Israeli photographer, archaeologist, and one of the founders of archaeometallurgy.
14 Facts About Beno Rothenberg
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Beno Rothenberg was born in a wealthy Hassidic Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main on October 23,1914.
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Beno Rothenberg emigrated to Palestine with his family in 1933, where he started right away his studies of mathematics and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Beno Rothenberg had access to important Israeli personalities of whom he took portraits.
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Beno Rothenberg published a number of philosophy articles, along with a book of poetry.
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Beno Rothenberg's photography led him to work with American archaeologist Nelson Glueck in the 1950s surveying biblical sites for King Solomon's mines.
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Beno Rothenberg became an expedition supervisor and an administrator of the field team.
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Beno Rothenberg's first major work was a survey of the Sinai Peninsula in 1956.
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Beno Rothenberg later worked with Yohanan Aharoni, whose scientific approach influenced Rothenberg and created frictions with Glueck, who was more inclined towards biblical literalism.
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Beno Rothenberg went on to lead excavations uncovering the expansive Egyptian-controlled ancient copper mines at Timna Valley, part of the Arava Valley in the Negev Desert.
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In 1968, Beno Rothenberg joined American Theodore Wertime, "on a long reconnaissance journey through Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan in search of the origins of pyrotechnology".
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Beno Rothenberg partnered with academic institutions in the UK and Germany, establishing archaeometallurgy as an academic field.
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Beno Rothenberg lectured into his nineties, and gave his last lecture in 2008, at 94.
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Beno Rothenberg died in Ramat Gan at the age of 97, on March 13,2012.