Dead Sea towns around the lake. These towns had drinking water from the Ein Feshcha springs and other sweetwater springs in the vicinity. Intimately connected with the Judean wilderness to its northwest and west, the Dead Sea was a place of escape and refuge. The remoteness of the region attracted Greek Orthodox monks since the Byzantine era. Their monasteries, such as Saint George in Wadi Kelt and Mar Saba in the Judaean Desert, are places of pilgrimage. In the 19th century the River Jordan and the Dead Sea were explored by boat primarily by Christopher Costigan in 1835, Thomas Howard Molyneux in
Healers of the Dead Sea features, showing its orientation towards Jerusalem where the expected river of life-giving waters were assumed to have come from in some prophesied time in the future. It guided the viewer around the banquet hall, scriptorium, watercourses and baptizmal cisterns to give a feeling of reality to the times. Allegro also starts to discuss how to do Essene healing magic. Healers of the Dead Sea Healers of the Dead Sea, produced by John Marco Allegro and Douglas Edwards, is a 30-minute CBS documentary regarding Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essenes. Allegro narrated and had begun work on the film for the