As references for the Dead Sea bitumen, present-day specimens of pure bitumen floating on the Dead Sea surface, and archaeological bitumen, unearthed from the Tel Yarmouth site in Israel were used.
... As references for the Dead Sea bitumen, present-day specimens of pure bitumen floating on the Dead Sea surface, and archaeological bitumen, unearthed from the Tel Yarmouth site in Israel were used. To complete the references for a comparison, data were also added on bitumen identified as Dead Sea bitumen in balms of Egyptian mummies (Connan, 2005;Macke et al., 2002). ...