Show seaport ot of king solomon archeology archaeology Arche now has substantiated the broad historical framework of the old testament narrative from the time of abraham according to dr robert engberg director of the american school for oriental research at jerusalem he cites the seaport of king solomon mentioned many times in the bible excavations seem to prove that king solomon was an important iron and copper magnate of the ancient world dr engberg pointed out in a university ver sity of chicago lecture that in the year 2000 B C egyptians were familiar with the art of extracting the square root of numbers they even appear to have known how bow to obtain the area of a circle by squaring eight ninths nintha of the diameter the resulting error from this method he he declared I 1 is only about halt half of 1 per cent the pig excavations prove was domesticated long before the horse and the latter long before the camel |