
Episode 355: Asphalt - A History
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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The Asphall Pits in a Rock
In the middle east, mesopotamian, a biblical ands and all that, you had the dead se way back then. The dead sea still does this, but the dead sea bubbles up asphall chunks. But now they tend to be jeany tiny. Back in the day, the dead sea would bubble up an asphal chunk l as big as a football field. It would be a prize, because you could chop off chunks and sell to the embalmers in egypt. So you had an aspall trade, and that wass absolutely amazing. Most cultures use asphorm as a symbol of some sort of evil, but not all culture stid.
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