Dead Sea
About Dead Sea
The Dead Sea, also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the West Bank to the west and Israel to the southwest. It lies in the endorheic basin of the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
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They made their money because they were near the Dead Sea. They based their kingdom around the Dead Sea. They noticed these lumps of bitumen floating in the Dead Sea — they were islands of tar. The Egyptians liked to buy tar because they were used in the mummifying process for embalming.
from No Such Thing As The Train King Of Europe, 2017-01-27 at 00:18:20 · read transcript
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You guys might know about this. I don't know if this is controversial, but Prince Charles, who was Prince at the time, but guys, I've got a lot of facts. He visited Haiti as they were recovering from an earthquake, and he gifted them a jar of sand from the Dead Sea. It was seen as not particularly helpful. If anything, the last thing you want after an earthquake is more dirt.
No Such Thing As A Honey Badger On Toast, 2025-01-23 · listen
Basically, the reason, they were the richer civilization from about 500 BC to 200 BC in Arabia. They got rich by selling tarmac. The way they got tarmac was they were near the Dead Sea. This weird thing happened when there was an earth tremor of some sort, huge amounts of bitumen would just suddenly bubble up to the surface of the Dead Sea. These massive islands of bitumen just appeared.
No Such Thing As The Shark Tooth Fairy, 2019-01-18 · listen
Something I've always found really amazing about road surfaces is a fact about bitumen, which I remember finding this out in the N series when I was researching the Nabateans, who were this amazing Middle Eastern civilization. Basically, the reason they were like the richest civilization from about 500 BC to 200 BC in Arabia, and they got rich by selling tarmac. The way they got tarmac was they were near the Dead Sea. This weird thing happened when there was an earth tremor of some sort.
252: No Such Thing As The Shark Tooth Fairy, 2019-01-18 · listen
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No Such Thing As The Train King Of Europe put 3 places on the map.
- German Center for Infection Research · Germany
- Eton College · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 31.5590, 35.4732