Dating of ancient anchors from the dead sea

Privacy and the Integrity of Liberal Politics: The Case of Governmental Internet Searches

“…by third-party aggregators as well as by social networking site operators, job recruiters, and employers is morally troubling because it threatens to disrupt the delicate web of relationships that constitute the context of social life, injecting into workplace and business contexts information of the wrong type. 23 The idea that privacy is constitutive of social relations forms an important advance from the classic liberal approach to privacy. The relevance of this idea for reflection on the nature of political life is evident.…”

A New Type of Composite Anchor Dated to the Fatimid-Crusader Period from the Dead Sea, Israel

“…In 1989 three stone anchors were found near Kibbutz Ein Gedi beach. Two still contained the remains of their hawsers, which were dated by radiocarbon analysis to the 3rd–2nd centuries BC (Nissenbaum et al ., 1990; Hadas, 1992). A fourth stone anchor of similar type was found in 1991 just north of this site (Hadas, 1993).…”

The Dead Sea ? an economic resource for 10 000 years

“…and in the Madaba map (6th century A.D.). Recently, the first direct physical evidence for the use of the Dead Sea as a shipping artery during Antiquity was provided by Nissenbaum et al (1990a) who dated ropes attached to stone anchors which were found near Ein Gedi (Fig. 1) on what was the lake bottom, prior to the recession of lake shoe, to the 3rd century B.C.…”