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This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 106. Chapters: Bodies of Water, Cities, Continents, Countries, Regions, US States, Dead Sea, Jordan River, Mediterranean Sea, Alexandria, Antioch, Babylon, Beersheba, Bethlehem, Canterbury, Constantinople, Corinth, Ephesus, Jerusalem, London, Paris, Rome, Tarsus, Thessalonica, Africa, Asia, Armenia, Assyria, Babylon, Brazil, Canaan, Christianity in Japan, Christianity in Jersey, Christianity in the United States, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Ottoman Empire, Papal States, Persian Empire, Roman Catholicism in Slovenia, Roman Empire, Soviet Union, Switzerland, Ukraine, Bible Belt, East Jerusalem, Galilee, Garden of Eden, Iudaea Province, Judea, Land of Nod, Middle East, Palestine, Samaria, Sea of Galilee, Kentucky, Missouri, New York State, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah. Excerpt: The Dead Sea (Arabic, Hebrew ) is the lowest exposed point on the Earth's surface. It is on the border between the West Bank, Israel, and Jordan on the Jordan Rift Valley. This endorheic body of water is the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. The Dead Sea is 67 km long, up to 18 km wide and 799 m below sea level in depth at its deepest point. While the surface elevation of the Dead Sea continues to fluctuate, the Dead Sea valley contains the lowest land point on the face of the earth: an elevation of 394 m (1291 ft) below sea level. The Dead Sea has attracted interest and visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. 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 products as diverse as balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers. In Hebrew the Dead Sea is called the Yam ha-Melah - meaning "sea of salt," or Yam ha-Mavet - meaning "sea of death." In past times it was the "Eastern Sea" or the "Sea of Arava." In Arabic the Dead Sea is called Al Bahr al Mayyit meaning "the De...
