The Dead Sea : a 10,000-year history
Arielli, Nir, 1975-2024
Book
The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms, even so, civilizations have built ancient cities and hilltop fortresses around its shores for centuries. The protagonists in its story are not only Jews and Arabs, but also Greeks, Nabataeans, Romans, Crusaders and Mamluks. Today it has become a tourist hotspot, but its drying basin is increasingly under threat. Nir Arielli explores the history of the Dead Sea from the first Neolithic settlements to the present day.
Main title:
The Dead Sea : a 10,000-year history / Nir Arielli.
Author:
Arielli, Nir, 1975-, author
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]©2024.
Collation:
xiii, 287 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780300259421 (hardback)
Dewey class:
915.694
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2419067