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). ...
... 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). ...