“A portion of the salaries paid to Roman soldiers was in salt,” Politis said, adding that balsam oil was produced at the site of Ain Judi on the shores of the Dead Sea. Inscriptions found in ...

They unearthed 2,500-year-old tombs near Tlalim Junction, revealing trade connections with Yemen, Phoenicia, and Egypt. The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in city ...