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Dead Sea
THE LARGEST NATURAL SPA IN THE WORLD
The Dead Sea, the lowest spot on the earth, has been known since antiquity as a place of awe and profound mystery, a place of magical and health-giving properties. Cleopatra found there the secrets of eternal beauty. Today, modern science has proven the therapeutic and rejuvenating properties of the Dead Sea unique mineral content and rich black mud.
The Dead Sea is the largest source of minerals in the world, with up to 32% concentration of minerals and with and the largest variety of minerals (21-23 different types). In fact, the human body is composed of 4-5% minerals. These are elements that are essential to the skin's metabolic processes and to the bodily functions.
The Dead Sea salts and black mud have been famous since ancient times for their magical beautifying effect on skin and hair as well as for their relaxing properties and their capability to alleviate pain in muscles and joints while increasing their flexibility.
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Why is it called the Dead Sea?
It is called the Dead Sea because nothing lives in it. It is some of the saltiest water anywhere in the world, almost six times as salty as the ocean! The Dead Sea is completely landlocked and it gets saltier with increasing depth.
There is no seaweed or plants of any kind in or around the water. There are no fish or any kind of swimming, squirming creatures living in or near the water. As a matter of fact, what you will see on the shores of the Sea is white, crystals of salt covering everything.Why is the Dead Sea so Salty?
All roads lead to the Sea when it comes to the rivers in the area. The Dead Sea is continually fed water from the river and streams coming down off the mountains that surround it. However, no rivers drain out of the Dead Sea. The only way water gets out of the Sea is through evaporation. When the water evaporates, it leaves behind all the dissolved minerals in the Sea, just making it saltier. In fact, it's through the dual action of; 1) continuing evaporation and 2) minerals salts carried into the Sea from the local rivers, that makes the Sea so salty. The fact that the water doesn't escape the Sea just traps the salts within its shores. There's nothing living in the Dead Sea because it got so salty, so quickly, that evolution has not had a chance to produce any creatures that could adapt to such brutal conditions.
Biblical history...
King David, King Herod, Jesus, and John the Baptist were closely linked with the Dead Sea and its surroundings. The prophets knew it via the infamous Sodom and Gomorra. During the Egyptian conquest it is said that Queen Cleopatra obtained exclusive rights to build cosmetic and pharmaceutical factories in the area. Later on, the wily Nabateans discovered the value of bitumen extracted from the Dead Sea needed by the Egyptians for embalming their mummies. Aristotle wrote about the remarkable waters.
In Roman times the Essences settled in Qumran on the Dead Sea's northern shore as a place of refuge and on the heights of Masada a small group of rebellious Jewish zealots held out against the might of the Roman Legion. The remoteness of the region attracted Greek Orthodox monks since the Byzantine era. Their monasteries such as Saint George in Wadi Kelt and Mar Saba in the Judean Desert are places of pilgrimage. Bedouin tribes have continuously lived in the area and more recently explorers and scientists arrived to analyze the minerals and conduct research into the unique climate. Since the 1960s, tourists from all the over world have also explored the Dead Sea region.