Saul (/ s ɔː l /; Hebrew: שָׁאוּל ‎, romanized: Šāʾūl; Greek: Σαούλ; transl. "asked/prayed for"), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the first monarch of the United Kingdom of Israel.His reign, traditionally placed in the late 11th century BCE, supposedly marked the transition of Israel and Judah from a scattered tribal society to organized statehood.

Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials.It uses the principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics for the solution of its respective engineering problems. It also relies on knowledge of geology, hydrology, geophysics, and other related sciences.Geotechnical (rock) engineering is a subdiscipline of …