On average, there are 192 days above 30 °C (86 °F) annually.[26]. The world's lowest roads, Highway 90, run along the Israeli and West Bank shores of the Dead Sea, along with Highway 65 on the Jordanian side, at 393 m (1,289 ft) below sea level. …. Source: BuzzFeed. Today asphalt seeps into the lake and floats to the surface of the Dead Sea. Great stuff. It now appears that a layer of inorganic substances — mainly salts… [54], The Dead Sea Works was founded in 1952 as a state-owned enterprise based on the remnants of the Palestine Potash Company. These are Lake Lisan deposits and thus represent sediment deposited probably much more than 40,000 years ago. Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. (the Qumran earthquake) and 750 B.C. Most of the Qumran Scrolls discovered in the 1940s and 1950s have long since been restored and published. There are similar earthquake signatures found in ocean-floor sediments. 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One of the major examples would pertain to the missing Day of Atonement (known as Yom Kippur), which was inserted later into the parchment by yet another ancient anonymous scribe. Jan. 22, 2002.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1773871.stm, Newly Discovered Fossil Reveals Ancient Penguins Were Huge, Information about the device's operating system, Information about other identifiers assigned to the device, The IP address from which the device accesses a client's website or mobile application, Information about the user's activity on that device, including web pages and mobile apps visited or used, Information about the geographic location of the device when it accesses a website or mobile application. The English is corrupted. 1. this site possible. The same is true for C14 dating, which is another thing that YECs often attack. The Qumran caves. King David was said to have hidden from Saul at Ein Gedi nearby. Aug. 3, 2001.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1472842.stm, "Lowest Elevation…Dead Sea." Two deeper mixed layers in the Dead Sea are datable from historical, archaeological, and geological associations with faulting—the earthquakes of 31 B.C. (http://www.creationicc.org/ – at the bottom of the page in the evening webinar sessions) In the Q&A he was asked if he went any lower in the sediment column than the earthquakes he was looking at to see if there was any Flood evidence. Papyrus parchments found in caves near the Dead Sea document the vast amount of cultivated land in the area, especially persimmon trees, but also olive and date trees. Jerry Collins, […] eerste blog is van The Natural Historian. BBC News. [citation needed] The floods of the valley came and went depending on long-scale changes in the tectonic and climatic conditions. As the water level decreases, the characteristics of the Sea and surrounding region may substantially change. Nevertheless, the upper layer remained suspended above the lower layer because its waters were warmer and thus less dense. The southern end is fed by a canal maintained by the Dead Sea Works, a company that converts the sea's raw materials. Egyptian mummification processes used asphalt imported from the Dead Sea region.