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Article: History floats over Dead Sea
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- February 22, 2004
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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 times. On earlier trips, including when
David was a child, we took a bus from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea.
As we made our way down the winding road, the landscape became
surreal, with sculpted sand caves on one side above the road on rocky
hillsides, and swirls of frosting-like crystallized salt stretching
for miles on the sea side. These moon-like salt craters are the first
introductions to the ...