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The Dead Sea Scrolls
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THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS-in the popular imagination, the very name conjures up scandal, intrigue and mystery. Tales of illicit excavations, clandestine purchases, and midnight trips to Beirut, all with the sound of gunfire crackling in the background, abound in the lore of the Scrolls and the scholars associated with them. While visions of Roland de Vaux as a French Indiana Jones may be the product of an overheated imagination, the actual story of the discovery of the Scrolls is nevertheless an e...
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 "The Star (Jordan, Middle East)")
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The Dead Sea, the Legend, THE STAR
The Star (Jordan, Middle East)
; Ehsan Nimiri The Star (Jordan, Middle East) 11-12-1998 SODOM LAKE, Dead Sea, the Saline Lake, are all different names for the sameplace. Several communities and civilizations have originated there, and have beenwashed away, in the area known today as the Dead Sea. Situated 55 kilometers west of
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History floats over Dead Sea
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; History floats over Dead Sea By DAVID ZARMI AND CHANE ZARMI Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, February 22, 2004 An aura of mysticism and romance seems to hang over the area around the Dead Sea. You can feel the sense of timelessness, of antiquity and biblical times. We've been there several
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Springing to life in the Dead Sea.(Tourism)
Manila Bulletin
; Byline: Rachel Castro-Barawid Despite the sweltering heat of the noon-day sun, the Dead Sea shore is bursting with locals and tourists dressed in skimpy swimsuits, all scrambling to find the best spot in this shallow sea for their share of skinny-dipping and floating in saltwater. After soaking
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Absorbing documentary on the Dead Sea
Cleveland Jewish News
; Harris, Ellen Cleveland Jewish News 05-26-2000 Absorbing documentary on the Dead Sea Its water is so poisonous ... makes those links abundantly clear. Article copyright the Cleveland Jewish News. Article copyright the Cleveland Jewish News. V.76;
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The Dead Sea.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; If you make a list of 40 things to do before you die, it should include visiting a desert. But if you are making a list of 10 things you must do before you die, it should include experiencing the Dead Sea. The lowest point on Earth, it is also nothing like anywhere else on the planet. Indeed, with
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Skin-healing powers of the Dead Sea
Dermatology Times
; Natural therapy can lead to psoriasis remission of six months to a year National report - Ironically, the very properties of the Dead Sea that kill fish and other wildlife offer psoriasis suffers and people with other chronic health conditions significant healing powers. Nestled between Jordan and
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A bitter end for the Dead Sea?
Jerusalem Post
; Tovah Lazaroff Jerusalem Post 04-27-2001 Headline: A bitter end for the Dead Sea? Byline: Tovah Lazaroff Edition; Daily Section: Features Page: 02 Friday, April 27, 2001 -- The Dead Sea is dying of thirst.That might seem like a strange thought to the bathersfloating in the salt-laden, eerily calm
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Dead Sea could dry up
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Dead Sea could dry up Study warns that diversion, evaporation endanger ancient sea By PETER ENAV Associated Press Sunday, November 9, 2003 Jerusalem -- The Dead Sea is dying, and only a major engineering effort can save it, Israel's Minister of the Environment says. The Dead Sea gets its name from
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Healing in the Dead Sea
New Straits Times
; Sharon Nelson New Straits Times 05-07-2002 Healing in the Dead Sea Byline: Sharon Nelson Edition: The City Advertiser; 2* Section: Health Memo: Destination Jordan.; (STF) - SHARON NELSON tests the waters of the Dead Sea as she continues her journey through Jordan. I ONLY managed a quickie at the
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On a scale of 1 to 10, just how dead is it?(Dead Sea)
U.S. News & World Report
; It could be the most morally uplifting but environmentally heavy-handed construction project in the Holy Land since Noah's Ark: a $5 billion canal through the desert from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. As its apostles see it, the 120-mile canal would be a grand peace project forever linking Israel,
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