The Dead Sea

Here we are at the Dead Sea. It seems so odd to look at the beautiful clear water that looks so inviting and yet it isn't a refreshing body of water. However, they say the salt and mud are great spa treatments. It's shores are 1,378 feet below sea level; the lowest point of dry land on earth. It is 1,247' deep and continues to sink about 13 inches a year. The Dead Sea also played an important role in the defeat of the Jews by the Romans in 73ad at Masada (right next door). Arrows soaked in the chemicals found in the water from the Dead Sea were lit on fire and shot into the wooden barricades.