A few years ago Ricardo Braz was scrolling through Instagram when he spotted a picture of a tiny island made of salt in the Dead Sea. He added it to his bucket list. In December the 24-year-old ...

As this fresh water diffuses into salt deposits ... clear pool. Yet not a single drop of that spring water—some 114 million gallons a year—reaches the Dead Sea. Just outside the nature reserve ...

A special salty mineral discovered on the Dead Sea's Temple Scroll could be why the ancient manuscript has remained ...