Article: The Dead Sea, the Legend, THE STAR

Transcript: Interview: Andrew Jampoler discusses his book on William ...
Talk of the Nation (NPR);  August 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... book on William Lynch's quest to measure the Dead Sea Host: NEAL CONAN ... century, William Lynch, a US naval officer ... took off for the Dead Sea for scientific ... Ottoman Empire, Lynch took his American ... River and into the Dead Sea. CONAN: Well ...

Article: Inspired by Historical Adventure; Leesburg Author's Latest Book ...
The Washington Post;  May 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Navy expedition to the Dead Sea that combined science ... led by Lt. William Lynch, sought to determine ... corrosive waters of the Dead Sea. Lynch hired camels to haul ... Jordan River, to the Dead Sea, where Lynch made the first accepted ...

Article: Why is the Dead Sea dying? Disappearing act.
The Christian Century;  February 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Jordan's zigzag path to the Dead Sea, 100 kilometers as the ... water a year flowed into the Dead Sea. The flow is now down to 300 million. When William Lynch, an American naval explorer ... creek than a river. The Dead Sea is at the lowest point on ...

Article: An Earlier Look at the Dead Sea
The Washington Post;  May 24, 2005 ;     323 words ... ... first scientific expedition to the Dead Sea was led by U.S. naval officer William F. Lynch in 1848. His "Examination of the Dead Sea" was published in the Congressional ... in 1849. An expanded version of Lynch's narrative with some embellishments ...

Article: Sailors in the Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition to the ...
Middle East Quarterly;  March 22, 2006 ;     683 words ... ... American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom ... led by Lt. William F. Lynch in 1848 rates as one of ... routes, setting off to the Dead Sea, not for any military ... lakes. (This author cited Lynch's report at length in ...

Article: Professor Brings Dead Sea Scrolls to Life In ...
Targeted News Service;  January 30, 2009 ;     461 words ... ... shines a light on the Dead Sea Scrolls in a lecture sponsored ... Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls," is set for Monday ... Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. in Lynch Auditorium of the Lundy ... Palestine. Her book on the Dead Sea Scrolls won the 2001-2002 ...

Article: Sailors in the Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition to the ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2005 ;     501 words ... ... Sailors in the Holy Land; the 1848 American expedition to the Dead sea and the search for Sodom and Gomorrah. Jampoler, Andrew C ... painful divorce and the death of his daughter, Lieutenant William Lynch was given permission to lead the first and only US Navy expedition ...