Because of its high density of salt, people float effortlessly, fueling a misconception that it is impossible to drown in the Dead Sea.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/news/health-and-medicine/tourist-drowns-in-dead-sea/2023/03/06/

Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave, surfaced in a recent excavation by Israeli archaeologists near the Dead Sea, officials announced.

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23771486.four-roman-swords-discovered-dead-sea-cave-israel/?ref=rss

I went to the Dead Sea - I had a photograph of myself reading a newspaper in it because of course, you can't sink because of the high concentration of salt."

Source: https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/23769941.tributes-paid-104-year-old-world-war-two-veteran/?ref=rss

“Lake Urmia in Iran, the Dead Sea, the Salton Sea … these are all worrisome.”

Source: https://sentinelcolorado.com/news/nation-world/world/incredible-shrinking-lakes-humans-climate-change-diversion-costs-trillions-of-gallons-annually/

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a series of hundreds of ancient religious scrolls discovered along the coast of the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956.

Source: https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/nation-world/archaeologists-in-louisiana-save-artifacts-12-000-years-old-from-natural-disasters-and-looters/article_390de877-f66c-5f8d-bab5-c5661df9dfc6.html

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a series of hundreds of ancient religious scrolls discovered along the coast of the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956.

Source: https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/nation-world/archaeologists-in-louisiana-save-artifacts-12-000-years-old-from-natural-disasters-and-looters/article_390de877-f66c-5f8d-bab5-c5661df9dfc6.html