Dead Sea

Nothing truly prepares you for the feeling of floating higher in the water than seems naturally possible.

The oldest known crown in the world, strangely decorated with vultures and doorways, was found among objects like nothing ever seen anywhere else.

It is so anomalous among the Dead Sea Scrolls – its author, script, style, language, genre, content, and medium all differ to the other scrolls – that scholars believe it must have been placed in the cave at a different time to the rest of the ancient documents.

It is 200 years since Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt rediscovered the ancient Nabateaen city of Petra, Jordan. He entered the city dressed in the disguise of a Bedouin on the pretext of making a sacrifice at the tomb of Aaron.

Master photographer Leonid Padrul works with light to capture the life of his subjects.