<P> In the late 1940s and early 1950s, hundreds of religious documents dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE were found in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran, about one mile (1.6 kilometres) inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea (presently in the West Bank). They became known and famous as the Dead Sea Scrolls . </P> <P> The world's lowest roads, Highway 90, run along the Israeli and West Bank shores of the Dead Sea, along with Highway 65 on the Jordanian side, at 393 m (1,289 ft) below sea level . </P> <P> A golf course named for Sodom and Gomorrah was built by the British at Kalia on the northern shore . </P> <P> The first major Israeli hotels were built in nearby Arad, and since the 1960s at the Ein Bokek resort complex . </P>

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