The Dead Sea - Ein Bokek, Israel - Names From the Bible on Waymarking.com

The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. Biblically, it was a place of refuge for King David. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets.

The sea bed has deposits of black mud that is easy to spread on the body and provides the skin with nourishing minerals. The bromide in the air is also beneficial to the body’s systems, thus making the Dead Sea a provider for good health and healing for vacationers from all over the world. In 2009, 1.2 million foreign tourists visited the Israeli side of the Dead Sea.

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Bible verse: Genesis 14:3 - All the latter kings joined forces in the Siddim Valley, where the Dead Sea is. Person Place or Thing: Thing

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