Salt caves tend to only exist in highly arid regions, like the area around the Dead Sea, which is located at the lowest point on earth and is too salty to support animal life. The longest in the ...

Israeli researchers said Thursday they have surveyed what they now believe to be the world's longest salt cave, a network of twisting passageways at the southern tip of the Dead Sea.

This salt-finishing technique may not have been unique to the Temple Scroll. In further analysis of Dead Sea Scroll fragments from another cave, the team found traces of similar salts on another ...

Walking out of the Santa Barbara Salt Cave in Santa Barbara, California, ... Malcham Cave, the largest natural salt cave in the world, opens to the Dead Sea. But manmade salt caves and rooms, ...

Share this Story : Israeli researchers says Sodom salt cave, at the southern tip of the Dead Sea, is the longest ever found ...

"Salt cave" is a literal term here: Malham sits under Mount Sedom, just southwest of the salty Dead Sea, and its walls are made out of the same sort of salt on your kitchen table.Radiocarbon ...

Stalactites growing on the ceiling of Malham salt cave. Photo by Yoav Negev. Horwitz points out a few small caves we can enter. ... Back on Road 90, on the southeast side of the Dead Sea, are the ...

The secret to miraculous preservation of a Dead Sea Scroll could be salt coating The nearly 25-foot-long Temple Scroll is best preserved of these ancient Hebrew texts.

I n the Judean Desert, not far from the shimmering salt flats of the Dead Sea, archaeologists made a discovery that sent ripples through the world of ancient history. The site looked unremarkable ...

Israeli archaeologists have discovered four Roman-era swords with their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave near the ...

The salt cave near the Dead Sea is so far the longest salt cave in the world. Most salt caves do not exceed 10 kilometers, but the Malham Cave is over 6 miles (10 kilometers) in length.

MOUNT SODOM, ISRAEL (AP) — Israeli researchers said Thursday they have surveyed what they now believe to be the world's longest salt cave, a network of twisting passageways at the ...